ED Surge
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It It could really accelerate the pace of research,” says Xavier Jaravel, one of the professors leading the experiment.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
They opened opportunities for economic and social mobility and moved my parents’ generation beyond the experiences of their grandparents and great-grandparents, many of whom, as first- and second-generation immigrants to this country in the nineteenth century, started their working lives as farmers or day laborers.
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ED Surge
APRIL 4, 2022
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.
Political Science Now
APRIL 4, 2024
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will welcome eight scholars as 2024 fellows this fall. It is a privilege to welcome another highly accomplished cohort of social scientists as fellows of the AAPSS, and it is especially gratifying to award inaugural fellowships in memory of Academy Fellows James S.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. That’s true for college students too.
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.”.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.
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