When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know ...

Do American universities produce too many Ph.D.s? It’s a decades-old question that has intensified in recent years as worries about a stagnant academic-job market, record graduate-student debt, and ...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the seemingly baffling fact that, despite a desolate academic job market, the number of new students enrolling in arts and humanities Ph.D. programs managed to grow by ...

Since the 2008 Great Recession, American higher education has experienced a new round of uncertainties and reductions -- especially, but not only, in public institutions. British academics refer to ...

“Why haven’t humanities Ph.D. programs collapsed?” asks my colleague Jordan Weissmann this week. It’s a question that has drawn a host of reader responses, from “the job market is scary” to the point ...

Contrary to public opinion, colleges and universities tend to be conservative places — with a small “c.” Academics may lean left politically, but they value their professional traditions and are wary ...

Harvard’s Arts and Humanities Division and the Mahindra Humanities Center will launch two new programs in fall 2021 to help promote undergraduate humanities research and collaboration across fields.

Complaints about doctoral education in the humanities -- it takes too long, it's not leading to jobs, it's disjointed -- are rampant. So too are periodic calls for radical reform. But Stanford ...

(TNS) — As the use of artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent in education worldwide, the LSU college of humanities and social sciences is embracing the new technology by offering ...

Payoff, debt and population have driven an enrollment decline in traditional humanities programs across the nation and state, especially in majors such as English, history and philosophy. Virginia ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Cornerstone University has let go of six professors as it reorganizes its programs, combining some and expanding others. “There were a small number of majors that we ...

Kentucky Humanities losing 70 percent of budget to DOGE cuts. The National Endowment for the Humanities began in the 1960s, under President Lyndon Johnson. It's helped fund events focused on history, ...