The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Nobody else was listening, I could ask any question I needed. She said she cried on her last day.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Michael Ramirez is an associate professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He teaches courses on gender, work, aging and the life course, and film.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Human hygiene is taken as an example. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world. I’m honored to have been selected to join the department alongside brilliant and kind scholars.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Intense parental involvement in schools is not always helpful to children, either. Sheerr Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Weininger is an associate professor of sociology at SUNY College. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. "We

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The project aims to help teachers educate students about the structures of economic inequality and its human dimensions and foster greater understanding and empathy. Hansen is a professor of sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University; Nazli Kibria , is a professor of sociology at Boston University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are millions of kids in this country who have ADHD and legitimately need a diagnosis,” said Jayanti Owens, a Brown University sociologist who conducted the data-driven study, “but the question for me is when you have kids for whom it is not a clear-cut ADHD diagnosis.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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. A disproportionate number of humanities and science programs are being dropped.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

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. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Every week a ‘Monday Morning Message (MMM)’ email goes out to all doctoral students from a faculty or staff member in the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development. Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) . Here’s my second one, which came out today. ].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

The unknown impacts of human ingenuity, climate change and demographic shifts in an increasingly global world, among myriad other forces, ensures that the future will be unpredictable. Liberal arts students learn about the breadth of the world and the ideas that have been central to our understanding of humanity and the world around us.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Ithaca, N.Y.:

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here. Imagine engineering students retrofitting campus buildings to make them more energy efficient.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Her research examines the conditions for justice during internal armed conflict, human rights prosecutions, transitional justice in post-communist Eastern European states, gender equality in post-conflict settings, and justice efforts in democracies. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

.” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Of course, there are critics who disagree with an analysis that is focused on measuring completion of four-year degrees.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

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 per cent of rural population.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. disease represents an aspect of the environment that is both influenced by human behavior and requires biocultural adaptations 3.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. LaMotta is making around $60,000 a year working in human relations in northern Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In this post I will develop these points through a consideration of the impact of genetic technologies on how human bodies and health are understood and managed. The ability to analyse our genetic material has had a big impact on how we understand what it is to be human and what it is possible to do to and know about our bodies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. She just published a study, “ The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964 to 2015 ,” in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2019. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

He was working with his anatomy and physiology professor to brainstorm an illustration of what happens when human cells are exposed to the chemical warfare agent Sarin gas. His goal was to build a physical prototype that can teach students how cells work by showing them what happens when a cellular calamity occurs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”. Basic questions — Who should O.U.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. Credit : Z.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? And Emporia State in Kansas, Missouri Western State University, the University of Alaska system. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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