The impending closure of the Art Institute of Philadelphia is forcing students to decide whether to move hundreds of miles away to attend another campus, finish their degrees online, or go to a new university. More...
1 août 2018
1 août 2018
Colleges dropping art for job-centric majors is a disservice to all
It’s a disturbing, if understandable, response to the cost of college and our rapidly changing job market: Jettison the traditional building blocks of knowledge like philosophy, history and literature, and replace them with "useful" majors aimed at training students for a profitable career. More...
1 août 2018
Art Institute's problems elsewhere raise concerns about Indy campus
Indiana higher education officials are on alert as the owner of The Art Institute of Indianapolis acts to close multiple campuses in North Carolina and faces questions about whether the system has misled students. More...
30 juillet 2018
¿Quién teme a los humanos digitales?
En la maraña de nuevas terminologías sobre la tecnología, el concepto de humano digital podría referirse a ciertos seres que se diferencian de los simplemente humanos porque no padecen la tecnofobia de las humanidades tradicionales, pero tampoco comparten ciegamente la tecnofilia de los posthumanos o transhumanos. Más...
29 juillet 2018
How a humanities degree will serve you in a disruptive economy
I don’t know why we call them “soft skills.”
They’re certainly not easy to learn, although they are as valuable and necessary as the skills doctors use in surgery, bankers use to assess risk and physicists use to split atoms. More...
26 juillet 2018
Digital Humanities for Social Good
By Lindsay McKenzie. Rapidly produced and highly topical digital humanities projects are challenging perceptions of the field. More...
25 juillet 2018
Presidents Who Leave Liberal Arts Colleges
By Rick Seltzer. A handful of college presidents have decided to make the unusual move from a liberal arts college to a professionally oriented institution. Despite love for the liberal arts, they say the time was right -- for many reasons. More...
25 juillet 2018
Worries at Antioch College
By Rick Seltzer. Concerns rise over enrollment and finances at the storied small liberal arts college in Ohio. More...
25 juin 2018
Liberal arts face uncertain future at nation’s universities
One morning this past spring semester, Kathryn Wisniewski, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), opened her campus email to discover that her major in English was on the chopping block. More...
23 juin 2018
Glasgow School of Art: ‘It should have been the safest building’
The hosepipes snaked all the way down to the river Clyde, thick with water, as firefighters smothered the last of the flames on Friday night and into Saturday. While they worked, students and artists, architects and sculptors gathered in the streets around the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building – Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s art nouveau masterpiece – to find out what had happened, and ask: four years after the Mack was devastated by fire, how could it happen again. More...
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