When he was president of the Modern Language Association, Michael Bérubé described the myriad challenges facing doctoral education as “a seamless garment of crisis.” That was 2013. I’m reluctant to ...

On Feb. 19, Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, released a report containing suggestions for the future direction of humanities graduate programs at Yale, which is meant to ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has won the open competition for a cooperative agreement with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) ...

The Humanities department at Michigan Technological University offers a broad interdisciplinary program of graduate education through its program in Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture. Our faculty and the ...

The Graduate Certificate in Publicly Engaged Humanities integrates the humanistic disciplines into the public sphere with projects that create, document, catalogue, or preserve content, or create ...

Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard and Princeton are all seeing changes to humanities programs at the graduate level.

The University of Chicago announced a series of changes recently to help its financial future, and that has some alumni worried about its reputation in the academic world. Why it matters: Despite not ...

The Mandel Center for the Humanities is now offering grants to current Brandeis graduate students to support research expenses of up to $2,000 for projects in the humanities, the arts, and the ...

For my last semester of teaching this spring and as a prelude to retirement, I taught a graduate religion seminar. Except for a practicum on teaching higher education in the humanities, I had not ...