New ACLS Report Highlights the Strength and Value of Teaching and Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at American Community Colleges Faculty Success Stories Encourage More Support for ...
For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.
Thinking of “sciences” and “humanities” as unrelated modes of inquiry is not only shortsighted; it’s new to western ...
It’s a question I keep seeing in faculty conversations on Twitter and elsewhere: Where are the examples of transformative online classes in the humanities? Academe has moved from the pedagogical ...
Even as massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to assume an increasingly prominent role in education, regularly enrolling thousands of students from around the world in classes taught by ...
If we ever needed the humanities, that time is now. Our undergraduates read much less serious fiction than did their predecessors. Most rarely encounter the fine arts, whether the visual or performing ...
Frank Antonson’s retirement from teaching was quickly approaching, and he knew his Humanities course was going to die. The public school in Pennsylvania where he had been teaching for 35 years had ...
What skills does a graduate student need in order to disseminate knowledge and establish a professional profile for current and future job market? One answer is to offer a course designed to teach ...
My title is, admittedly, intentionally flippant, seeking to grab your attention in this clickbait age. Yet beneath its flippancy is a serious claim: that teaching postdocs can be a high-impact way to ...
This past May, when a former student was back at Pomona College to see his sister graduate, he (Julius) and I (Kevin) managed to steal away amid all the commencement festivities for a bit of Scotch in ...
Sydney Chaffee, who teaches 9th grade humanities at a small Boston public charter school, has been named the 2017 National Teacher of the Year. Chaffee, who has taught for 10 years, was announced as ...
Under Kenya’s CBC Senior School (Grades 10–12), the Social Sciences pathway focuses on humanities, business, languages and ...