Universities and Labs

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1502+ words) A university degree is often presented as a gateway to a better future. Students spend years preparing for examinations, completing assignments, earning credits and building qualifications that are expected to improve their career prospects. Families invest their savings, students invest…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (135+ words) “Digger” is an immediate cult classic Team Edward or Jacob? Why do we care anymore? A liberal arts education is not enough Nobody is doing anything Women’s golf places second at MIACs “Primetime” comes bearing gifts The State of the…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (235+ words) Grace Beam, director of Online Learning and Development at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC), will speak at two national conferences this fall, focusing on how colleges are responding to artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. “Colleges are rethinking how…...

1+ week, 13+ min ago   (816+ words) hercampus.com Humanities at risk: What does this decline mean for us? The British Academy Data Map showed a broad and sudden decline in career prospects for academics in the non-STEM disciplines during the 2024-25 academic year. This proposes a huge…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (89+ words) A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word. By Adrienne D. Davis The recent “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (233+ words) Academics at a roundtable in Dhaka on Thursday called for greater responsibility and reforms in research assessment, publication practices and institutional policies relating to the humanities and social sciences. The speakers identified the limited presence of internationally indexed local journals…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) Chancellor Andrew D. Martin spoke about WashU’s political engagement in Washington, D.C., threats to federal research funding, and rationales behind larger expenditures by the University in a joint Student Union session on Sept. 29. This annual event allows SU representatives to speak…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (274+ words) Wednesday September 30, 2026 The Department of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) will organise a national roundtable on "Responsible Research and Publication in the Humanities" on 1 October, 2026, bringing together scholars and academic leaders from universities across…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (204+ words) The Reality of the 'Just Pick General Liberal Arts' Choice Goda first pointed out the current situation where many high school students choose the general liberal arts track by process of elimination, simply because 'math is difficult.' Goda stated frankly…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (103+ words) The answer to that question depends on how you understand what the American university is. Both the Cornell report and the earlier report from Yale University’s Committee on Trust in Higher Education make this point. But the two institutions articulate…...