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.”.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. China and other economic rivals add them. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. Law, science and technological advancements lead to highly decentralized human endeavours. lakh villages and nearly 99.6 per cent of rural population.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. disease represents an aspect of the environment that is both influenced by human behavior and requires biocultural adaptations 3.

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MARCH 29, 2019

And the University of Pennsylvania “is committed to making its practical, powerful and flexible Ivy League education available to the best and brightest students, regardless of their economic circumstances.”. LaMotta is making around $60,000 a year working in human relations in northern Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

He was working with his anatomy and physiology professor to brainstorm an illustration of what happens when human cells are exposed to the chemical warfare agent Sarin gas. billion economic development initiative centered on health and wellness. The association endorses common intellectual experiences.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

These processes enabled political trajectories that led to higher levels of human development and more robust postcolonial democratization in contexts previously characterized by forced settlement than those that experienced colonial occupation.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). The idea of allying with nature in a “more-than-human” collaboration isn’t always pure. Such an existential question begets even more fundamental questions for humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

Yet, as political theorist Rouven Symank argues, situating the concept of solidarity within its historical context reveals how it interacted with the political project of integrating colonies into imperial economic and legal orders. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2025

Sociality, or the relations humans have with other humans, has long interested me. Later I ask my friend Yoshiko Kuga about it. Japanese names are written last name first in Japanese but inverted when writing in English (as here).) She tells me that more and more Japanese are worried about meeting this undesirable fate.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

At the same time, to address mental health concerns, colleges are creating more courses in fields like “the environmental humanities,” Hamilton and Taylor Swift studies and offering more and more wellness days. She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Generally, there is a massive shortage of talent, particularly in certain skilled talent areas,” said Jamie Kohn, senior research director for the human resources practice of the Gartner consulting firm, who said competition for college graduates is fierce. Unemployment in Vermont is just 1.8 This year, 13,982 Mainers claimed a total of $31.4

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The humanities add some color into that.”. It’s a fast-spreading skepticism that has resulted in significant drops in the number of students majoring in the humanities on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian The proportion of students who major in the humanities has fallen from a high of nearly one in five to one in 20.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. It’s good to have you with us.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2025

The most severe teacher shortages are in rural areas, largely because of high turnover, according to a 2023 study co-authored by Richard Ingersoll, professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Before the likes of Trump, and even now with a so-called centre-left government, there’s still this misconception that the existence of folks like me is an ideology, whereas our existence is reality based on sound history, science, and sociology. Pre-colonial evidence and indigenous cultures show that we have always been here.

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