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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

The Hechinger Report

We want the students to stay in their major of choice,” he said, whether in the sciences, social sciences or otherwise. Other such practices include first-year seminars, writing-intensive courses, service learning, internships and study abroad.

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows

Society for Classical Studies

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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An Ode To STEM? What poets can teach academic scientists

The Hechinger Report

At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. Their ability to shift perspectives and see their science from multiple viewpoints may have been honed, in part, we believe, through poetry.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. To start, this means insisting that a scholar’s work is more than their social media presence.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. The document gives you some insight into the youth culture of the 1920s, the generation that would grow up to experience World War II as adults.