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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2022
Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. Drawing on data from the U.S.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2018
Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2020
This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
For many, attempting to climb the economic ladder means trading one form of economic distress for another. Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. Meanwhile, the black student loan-debt crisis needs urgent remedies.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2020
Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
As colleges continue to close or merge — more than 60 in the last five years, and 14 just since the start of the pandemic — a growing chorus of voices is raising alarms that this is taking more than just an emotional and economic toll on students, alumni, employees and communities. We’re not just fighting for Antioch College.
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