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Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma The critic and classicist  Daniel Mendelsohn  offers a simple yet compelling rationale for studying the humanities.  You can study accounting, he writes, but when your father dies, your accounting degree won't help you process that experience. Prior to the Renaissance, when the humanities came to be associated with the study of particular fields – notably, art, history, law, literature, philosophy, and theology – and particular methods – analytic, critical, and speculative rather than empirical --  the humanities was thought of as a process. For Cicero,  humanitas  provided the kind of education that was necessary to produce a cultivated human being, one who possessed certain virtues, including empathy, compassion, and a capacity for friendship, and an enlightened, mature, skeptical, and critical mindset. The time has come, I am convinced, to reassert this older view of the purpose of the humanities, and to embrace th...

Image:  The president of Lyon College in Batesville, Ark., resigned last week following outrage over an interview he gave to The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he discussed white supremacist activity in the area surrounding the college town. W. Joseph King characterized Lyon, a private liberal arts institution, and another college in Virginia where he formerly worked as “bubbles of inclusion and of diversity surrounded by a sea of angry, disenfranchised populations and a large white-supremacist population,” according to the July 26 Chronicle article . “Both colleges have had to deal with active Klan chapters in the area.” King is also is quoted saying that his home was vandalized with a spray-painted expletive following a meeting with students in which he told them to expect to find their political beliefs challenged. He also said that the Lyon campus had to go into effective lockdown after pro-Trump rallies in Arkansas during the fall of 2020 brought cro...

Image:  A professor at the University of Georgia , who has previously retired but was hired back to teach an upper-level psychology course, quit the course midclass last week because a student refused to wear a face mask correctly. The student arrived without a mask and was given one to wear, but she didn’t cover her nose. The professor, Irwin Bernstein, said he was at risk of COVID-19 because of his age and various health issues. “At that point I said that whereas I had risked my life to defend my country while in the Air Force, I was not willing to risk my life to teach a class with an unmasked student during this pandemic,” Bernstein said in an email to The Red & Black , which broke the story. “I then resigned my retiree-rehire position.” Bernstein confirmed to Inside Higher Ed that the story was accurate. A spokesman for the university told Inside Higher Ed that all the students were moved to a new section of the course. “The University of Georgia is doing...

Image:  The City University of New York waives out-of-state tuition fees for funded first-year graduate students. By their second year, having already spent 12 months or more in New York State, these students qualify as residents on their own. The pandemic threw that typical timeline off course, however, as many graduate students didn’t or couldn’t move to New York last summer. And there was little incentive to uproot then, as CUNY’s Graduate Center remained online for the fall and spring terms. Departments also reassured out-of-state students that they would still qualify for in-state tuition when they eventually arrived. These students are in New York now, ready to begin their second year of study. But they’re facing thousands of dollars in out-of-state tuition fees -- the ones they were told not to worry about. Kaci Harrison, a second-year Ph.D. student in philosophy, for example, last week saw $2,755 withheld from her pay for the two courses she’s taking this term. ...

Access to clean water is critical for Native American communities. In today's Academic Minute, the University of Utah's Heather Tanana discusses the wide gap in drinking water access. Tanana is an assistant professor of law at Utah. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  08-30-21 Utah - Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribes in the Colorado River Basin.mp3 Event's date:  Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 12:30pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3gJgZow

Blog:  Confessions of a Community College Dean My own college doesn’t start fall classes until after Labor Day, in recognition of the importance of summer work along the Jersey Shore. But many colleges across the country have already started. So last week, I asked those wise and worldly readers who work at campuses that have already started classes whether they’ve seen a lot of student defiance of mask mandates. I ask because we’ve mandated masks when indoors for the fall, and there has been quite a bit of speculation about the degree to which students will comply. I’m happy to report that the nearly unanimous feedback from the folks who wrote was that compliance has been widespread. Even better, the few students who didn’t comply initially were willing when confronted. Some may have grumbled or whined, but I’ll take that; you don’t have to be sincere for masks to work. Some students needed pointed and repeated reminders not to let the masks slip beneath their noses, but...

Category:  Carpe Careers When asked in job interviews why you’re leaving academe, talk less about what’s driving you away and more about what’s attracting you toward something new, advises Derek Attig. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty Topic:  Interviews Editorial Tags:  Career Advice Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Yukari MISHIMA/Istock/getty images plus Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 Most Popular:  3 Ad slot:  8 In-Article related stories:  12 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3kH6wv8

Hurricane Ida is closing many colleges in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Among institutions that are closing today are Delgado Community College , Northwestern State University , Southern University in Baton Rouge , Tulane University , the University of Louisiana at Lafayette , the University of Mobile and William Carey University . Ad keywords:  institutionalfinance Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3sYTfSn

Today on the Academic Minute : Heather Tanana, assistant professor of law at the University of Utah, discusses the wide gap in drinking water access for Native American communities. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/38oRkNu

The revelations of fraudulent data in a key paper have raised questions about Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, Science reported. "None of the five study authors disputes that fabrication occurred, but Ariely’s colleagues have washed their hands of responsibility for it," the article reported. "Ariely acknowledges that only he had handled the earliest known version of the data file, which contained the fabrications. Ariely emphatically denies making up the data." The data were collected by an insurance company, Ariely said, but he no longer has records of interactions with it that could reveal where things went wrong. “I wish I had a good story,” Ariely told Science. “And I just don’t.” Ad keywords:  faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Upda...

Arizona State University retaliated against a Black professor for stating his views on diversity during a job interview -- and the university owes him $357,000 because of it, a jury has found, according to The Arizona Republic . As a result of the retaliation, Arizona State passed over the professor, Nicholas Alozie, for a dean position. Arizona State will try to convince a judge to undo the jury’s verdict based on evidence that showed the professor’s statements were not why he didn’t get the position, a university spokesperson said. Ad keywords:  faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/3mKR3Ne

Hundreds of students and alumni of the American University of Afghanistan who’d expected to evacuate the country on U.S. military flights Sunday were turned away after seven hours of waiting for permission to enter the airport and were told that evacuations were permanently called off, The New York Times reported . The university administration sent an email to students saying they had learned there would be no more rescue flights and asking the approximately 600 students and alumni to go home. Members of the group were further alarmed to learn their names and passport information had been shared with members of the Taliban who were guarding airport checkpoints. The university had been trying to arrange for evacuation of students believed to be vulnerable by virtue of their association with AUAF, a U.S. government-funded institution. The Taliban attacked the campus in 2016, killing 15 people. After the Taliban took over Kabul Aug. 15, Taliban members posted a picture of the...

In technical fields, we often pride ourselves on our objectivity -- as though the work exists outside ourselves. In engineering, we have historically believed that we could make technologies that work for anyone, regardless of the identity of the engineer or the user. We have believed that technological progress was inherently making the world a better place. And, in many ways, it has. From the wheel to the automobile, the printing press to the internet, eyeglasses to orbiting telescopes, engineering has expanded humanity’s horizons and improved the human condition. But it has become clear that such technologies and systems do not benefit everyone equally. At times, they can even actively harm some groups. Unintended consequences can occur, because engineers are people, too -- people shaped by their cultures, with biases and blind spots. That’s why, earlier this year, I joined fellow engineering deans in submitting a letter to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology...

Blog:  Learning Innovation The 7/8/21 WSJ piece ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off ’ has generated a much needed conversation on the excessive debt that some graduate students are accruing. That article led to a fascinating exchange,  Master’s Degrees Are the Second Biggest Scam in Higher Education , between Jordan Weissmann (Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent) and New America’s Kevin Carey . We weighed in briefly here , and our colleague Bryan Alexander has done a terrific job of synthesizing, contextualizing, and broadening this discussion of master’s degrees in his 7/18 piece Have master’s degrees gone too far? A critique and a discussion . Even though this thread is a bit over a month old, we want to hone in on a couple things that Kevin Carey asserted in the Slate interview. In that exchange, Weismann asks: “Who do you think the victims are here, in the end? Is it students? Is it the taxpayer? Is it...