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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. 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?” Drawing on data from the U.S.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. Separation of Disciplines.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

ED Surge

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030.

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De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Sign Partnership Agreement

Political Science Now

Through the Institutional Partner program, De Gruyter is a trusted partner to support the goals, values, and brand of centers, societies, and organizations like the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. “We

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

The actual names may vary: We have the College of Arts and Sciences, while Stanford — where I earned my Ph.D. in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

ED Surge

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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