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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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Designing and Facilitating Learning for an Alternating A-B Hybrid Schedule

Catlin Tucker

I recommend teachers pull any learning activity that will benefit from human interaction, peer support, and social learning into synchronous time. For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American?

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

Digital Promise

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Will history repeat? The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. A high school teacher who shared feedback on the project said, “The VR brings history to life in a really different way.”. The teachers believe that the hands-on, independent nature of virtual reality will bring reluctant students to the study of history.

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Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows

Society for Classical Studies

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

The modules cover remarkable ground: Humanity and Natural Disasters; Intersections of Social Media & Science; Pandemics, Inequality and the Environment; and Coping & Caring for our Communities. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter. She is the author of several books, including One Goal.

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