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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

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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

The Hechinger Report

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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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Dr. Olukunle P. He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology for Beginners

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