For humanities departments that are still struggling with the lingering effects of the 2008 recession, it appears no news is the best news. That’s one of the chief conclusions of a report released on ...

Today, we're chatting about the humanities. On this episode, we'll get to know the kinds of majors available in these disciplines, what the humanities look like in college, and the careers you can ...

Following a literal song and dance routine, Anne Charity Hudley boarded a dinghy to safety as the humanities proved the superior academic discipline in the College’s annual Raft Debate. Charity Hudley ...

For decades now, a prevailing narrative in higher ed has been that humanities departments are withering away as incoming college students prioritize what are said to be more “career-related” majors in ...

As humanists grow ever more desperate for students, funding and public recognition, these scholars have attached the “humanities” label to an ever-expanding list of popular subjects -- not just such ...

What is the future of work? From business forums to think tanks to Congress, leaders are grappling with the question of how new technologies are reshaping employment in the 21st century — and how ...

(Guest post! Ben Schmidt is the visiting graduate fellow at the Cultural Observatory at Harvard, and a graduate student in history at Princeton University. His research is in intellectual and cultural ...

Lisa Dolling, an associate professor of philosophy, is dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology, Updated November 5, 2013, 9:50 AM No matter whether the number of ...

Curricular approaches in American higher education today have arisen out of a historical tradition of educational integration, originally called liberal education, through which students were exposed ...

What state are the Australian academic humanities in? Simple. They’re demoralised. How can I tell? The signs are everywhere, but let’s just say that whenever humanities academics get together these ...