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Taking Humanities Teaching outside the Classroom

06 Sep 2017

Interested in the public humanities? Take a look at Jean E. Howard’s paper “The Public Humanities,” presented at the 2014 MLA Annual...

New Findings on Gender and Career Outcomes for Humanities Majors

05 Sep 2017

What are likely career paths for humanities majors? And how does gender affect future careers and earnings? New reports from Humanities Indicators...

In Support of Quality English Teaching

25 Aug 2017

Quality English teachers—whether they teach introductory composition classes or senior seminars on Middlemarch—help their students to become purposeful writers and empathetic readers. ...

Court Sets Narrow Standard in Application of Title lX

Decision could minimize colleges’ and universities’ responsibility for victims of sexual misconduct.

Concern Over Decline in National Reading Scores

On nation's report card, two out of three children did not meet the standards for reading proficiency.

Border Studies: Beyond the Boundaries of a Single Discipline

13 Nov 2019

In our increasingly interconnected world, the symbolic and material effects of borders and bordering have generated growing interest from scholars across the humanities and social sciences, leading to the emergence, in the last few decades, of border studies as a major field of pedagogy. The burgeoning field of border studies encompasses a broad range of...

Who Are Today’s College Students? The Marginalized Majority

04 Nov 2019

Given the depiction of the American college experience in television, movies, and the nightly news, you might think typical high school seniors spend months visiting prospective colleges; writing and rewriting admissions essays; practicing, taking, and retaking standardized tests; and nervously waiting to see if they have been admitted to one or more of the top...