There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound about liberal arts degrees leading to low-paying jobs, despite research ...

Last Friday, the Office of the Registrar erroneously sent out an email encouraging students to fill out their fall semester course evaluations on SCORE. Approximately three hours later, the system ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels sent a message to undergraduate students and their parents today stressing the vital importance of the humanities in higher education, noting that ...

As I sat in my general chemistry lecture waiting for the professor to start, I overheard a very peculiar conversation. One student said, “I don’t know why med school forces us to take a year of ...

In 2019, the share of bachelor’s degrees that were earned in English dropped once again. In fact, for the first time the rate fell below 2 percent—fewer than one in 50 students are majoring in English ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Wayfinder Program at Calvin University believes that studying the greats— Plato, Picasso and Pericles, for example— makes you a better, more enlightened person. "If you know ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What’s the point of the humanities? Of ...

What weeks ago seemed unthinkable is now a reality for many professors: take all your courses online, suddenly and indefinitely, due to COVID-19. And while technical and other practical challenges ...

Three new University of Delaware courses last semester, known collectively as the “Wilmington Archives Project,” focused on digital humanities and storytelling with Delaware’s largest city as their ...

HUMN STUDENTS:If you run into ANY problems enrolling for classes please contact napodano@colorado.edustating your full name, the class in which you are trying to ...