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 ...

Reed College announced major changes to its signature humanities course Wednesday, months after student protesters charged that the course was too white, too male and too Eurocentric. Instead of ...

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 ...

Humanities under fire in higher education isn’t exactly new news. But with dire predictions about fewer high school graduates in the coming years along with a hyper-focus on career education, I want ...

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 ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $75.1 million in grants, with much of the money going to conservative ...

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 ...