Policy and Society

1+ day, 20+ 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…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (801+ words) Afraid that the traditional humanities disciplines are increasingly regarded as relics that have lost their salience, as Eurocentric vestiges of an obsolete and disreputable past with no little obvious traction in the job market, it is not surprising that many…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (558+ words) Around 2010, Facebook was a relatively small company with about 2,000 employees. So, when a PhD student named Dean Eckles showed up to serve an intership at the firm, he landed in a position with some real duties. As a doctoral candidate…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (32+ words) Deccan Herald The perils of gated learning: Why pushing Humanities out of IITs risks erasing critical citizenship...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (218+ words) Alex Bavender, General Studies, ’14For Alex Bavender, General Studies ’14, a liberal arts education did more than prepare her for a job. It gave her confidence, curiosity, and adaptability to build a career centered on service, strategy, and community impact. Those skills were…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (669+ words) At the University of Dayton, artificial intelligence rules can shift from one classroom to the next. A student may be encouraged to use AI for one assignment and prohibited from using it in another, even as every first-year student is…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (518+ words) By the time I was enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania in the 2000s, the notion that the “tenured radicals” comprising an ivy league faculty would so much as pretend to conceal their investment in secular orthodoxy—or…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (700+ words) “It’s a cute way of interacting with people,” said Harvard Graduate School of Education student Evelyn Huang as she waved to kayakers and rowers from her favorite river nook. If asked to imagine the heart of Harvard’s campus, most people…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (402+ words) The official site for UW-Green Bay News and Features What starts with one class can change the direction of your future. For Harley, that class was a freshman Philosophy seminar. He enrolled curious, not knowing it would eventually lead him…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (33+ words) Gig Harbor Now The Gig Harbor Now Calendar is made possible in part by Infinity Real Estate, a proud sponsor of Gig Harbor Now....