Thank you to Tyler Austin Harper. Though certainly critical of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, his story hit upon a deeper problem facing the humanities: our culture’s insistence on things of ...

Gary Saul Morson is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University. Last week, a committee of scholars convened by Vanderbilt University released a report on the state of ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Students in both classrooms were considering historic events. In Introduction to Sociology, the discussion was about globalization. Three buildings over, a Civil Discourse class ...

Humanities chairs—anxious about increasing political interference, declining enrollments and students’ skepticism toward the value of humanities degrees—are largely pessimistic about the future of ...

I assign books. A growing share of my students don’t read them. My students aren’t unique—the decline in full-length reading is well documented, especially at elite institutions nationwide. That’s not ...

After a year of cost-cutting and “strategic realignment” of priorities, Duke has changed where it spends its money. STEM fields, artificial intelligence and quantum-related initiatives have dominated ...

Last semester, my English professor acknowledged that he probably wouldn’t recognize an essay generated by artificial intelligence, but also warned students that if this was the route they chose, they ...

UC Santa Cruz humanities students graduate with a toolkit of transferable skills in high demand across fields ranging from academia to the entertainment industry and high-tech startups. They analyze, ...

For students in COST 0100: “Introduction to Contemplative Studies,” class begins and ends with meditation every Wednesday afternoon. The course, which aims to introduce students to the contemplative ...

Maya Zee (history minor) and History Professor Elaine Sullivan use virtual reality goggles to tour ancient Rome in the course History 198 "@history: Doing History in a Digital Age." UC Santa Cruz ...

Coming into Penn, I was adamant about majoring in philosophy, politics, and economics. During conversations with current students and fellow admitted students at Quaker Days, I was quick to say “PPE” ...

More than a quarter of the Class of 2025 admitted they had used artificial intelligence during their time at Princeton when it was not permitted on an assignment, according to The Daily Princetonian’s ...