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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

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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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here.

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Solidarity’s Colonial Dimension

Political Science Now

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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OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality

The Hechinger Report

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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Math can be a path to success after prison

The Hechinger Report

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. She said she cried on her last day.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

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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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.