By Colleen Flaherty. With many institutions cutting or considering cutting humanities and arts programs and resources, the College Art Association has released guidelines for addressing substantive changes to art, art history or design programs. More...
A Cycle of Advice
Every new group of humanities and social science scholars needs guidance to reimagine professional development and career options, writes Alfreda James. More...
What Makes a Good Chief Academic Officer?
Michael T. Marsden offers lessons that he's learned serving at liberal arts colleges for close to two decades. More...
Why It Matters That More Americans Read Poetry Now
We are not living in the end times for the arts, even if public arts and humanities institutions in the United States remain criminally underfunded, writes Eric Weiskott. More...
The Community We All Choose to Build
Alan R. Townsend describes why he left a top research university to help lead a small liberal arts college. More...
Social sciences and humanities vital for change-makers
Call for Applications for the European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Central European University is pleased to announce the eighth annual European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. This pioneering award, first announced in 2011 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Central European University, honors academics in the social sciences and humanities who teach at higher education institutions in the European Higher Education Area. More...
As humanities majors decline, colleges try to hype up their programs
Many colleges have become cheerleaders for their own humanities programs, launching promotional campaigns to make them more appealing to students. More...
Don't underestimate the value of humanities
The students' conversation has stayed with me, in part because it fits into a larger, disconcerting narrative about the role of the humanities in higher education. In a time of dizzying technological achievement and of rapid scientific innovation, skeptics of the humanities may question the usefulness of studying Aristotle, the history of the Italian Renaissance or modern Chinese fiction. More...
The few humanities majors who dominate in the business world
History and psychology graduates are the two groups of humanities graduates most common in the executive ranks of the business world, followed by philosophy and linguistics graduates. People with degrees in music, drama and fashion were the least common.
The data also show that only 23 percent of humanities and liberal arts executives pursued an MBA, lower than the 26 percent rate for the total population of executives. A higher proportion of humanities and liberal arts executives also had Ph.D.‘s or master’s degrees. More...