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

The Hechinger Report

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

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Solidarity’s Colonial Dimension

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies. Lin Centre at McGill University SYMANK, ROUVEN.

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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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Rural universities, already few and far between, are being stripped of majors

The Hechinger Report

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. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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

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Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g.,

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

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In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. “A Aimee Chartier served four years in the U.S.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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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. said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities.

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