By Joshua Kim. A metaphor that has captured the imagination at my College is that of a “base camp to the world”. I’ve been thinking about this base camp metaphor as it could apply to learning innovation. More...
26 mai 2018
21 mai 2018
One Liberal Arts College Wants More Female Students
By Scott Jaschik. Women have become the majority of undergraduates, college graduates and students in many graduate and professional fields. While some students joke about favorable ratios for male students, many admissions officials worry that male potential applicants won't look seriously at institutions that are lopsidedly female in enrollments. More...
21 mai 2018
Hiram Floats Interdisciplinary Redesign
By Greg Toppo. Leaders at Ohio’s Hiram College are proposing a sweeping redesign of the liberal arts college, with plans to discontinue several bedrock majors including mathematics, philosophy, economics, art history, music and religious studies. More...
18 mai 2018
Timeline of Art History
Timeline of Art History
The "Timeline of World History" is one of the most frequently consulted books in my house. I love the volume: it is a graphic representation of the world's great civilizations. In the same tradition is this site, the Timeline of Art History. More...
8 mai 2018
Art students: send us your summer term artwork
As the academic year draws to a close, art students are putting the finishing touches to their projects. We want you to share the results of your endeavours with the rest of the Guardian Students community. More...
7 mai 2018
Mlodinow's 'Elastic' and What a Liberal Arts Education Does to Your Brain
By Joshua Kim. A book on the cognitive science behind flexible thinking. More...
7 mai 2018
Three ERC humanities grants in three years for KTH
By Jan Petter Myklebust. Sverker Sörlin, professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has been awarded the prestigious Horizon 2020 European Research Council Advanced Grant of €2.5 million (US$3 million) for the project “The Rise of Environmental Governance: A history of the contemporary human Earth relationship”. More...7 mai 2018
‘New Liberal Arts’ or Not-So-Liberal Arts?
By Greg Toppo. Ohio's Hiram College stakes its future on ability to attract enough students willing to embrace a new, more interdisciplinary, experiential curriculum. More...
6 mai 2018
Total Spending on Humanities Research Drops Slightly
By Scott Jaschik. In 2016, inflation-adjusted spending for academic humanities research decreased for the first time since 2007, the first year for which reliable data are available. Expenditures in 2016, approximately $435 million, were down slightly (less than 0.1 percent) from the year before. The data are from the Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More...
6 mai 2018
Research in the Humanities: Who’s Counting?
As humanists, to make an impression inside our institutions and in the outside world, we need to do a much better job of counting the support our faculty members receive to pursue their work, argues George Justice. More...
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