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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve probably heard several times already that the humanities are in “crisis.” The crisis is real. But recent reports on it do not address the particular challenges, and strengths, of the public ...

The Humanities Program offers students the opportunity to intensify and expand their undergraduate study by writing an Honors Thesis, which is an independent study with the goal of graduating with ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...