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 ...

University of Wisconsin experts weighed in on the ways funding impacts development of programs in humanities and science, technology, engineering and math. Research has shown more employers are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students from Miami's Latiné Student Alliance rally for support and gather signatures outside Armstrong Student Center Humanities programs have been on the decline nationwide. Now, Miami University ...

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 ...

More often than not, I see both small-town colleges and large-scale universities cutting their humanities programs. Syracuse University dropped 84 majors in April, where the humanities and fine arts ...

Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit, along with modifications to ...

Authors Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason laughed while chatting at the 2017 Kentucky Book Fair in Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park. Matt Goins In high school civics we learned that our ...

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 ...

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.