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American Council of Learned Societies Releases New Report on Career Pathways for Humanities PhDs — PRBuzz.co — "Public Pathways: #Lessons about #phd #Careers from #10 #Years of Mellon/ACLS #Public Fellows" Provides Insights on #Career #Opportunities #Outside the Academy NEW #YORK May #20 2024 There is a persistent #false #perception that the humanities PhD is primarily a #training #program for #future #university faculty researchers. In #reality PhDs in the humanities and interpretive #social sciences have #meaningful careers in a #variety of sectors, from #academia to #industry #government and nonprofits. The #American Council of Learned Societies

👩🎓 I graduated my #doctoral program in late 2022. In my program, I was taught how to analyze and critique society and organizations ...up to and including the institutions in which I studied and worked. 📌 👰 We discussed 'piercing the veil', the important role scholars played in advancing societies, because #scholars and #culturalcritics were equipped to see past #misinformation, #propaganda and the antiquated, old-world perspectives that kept cultures and communities mired and rooted in backwards thinking. 🎣 I bought, hook, line and sinker, all of the stated values of #academia and #universities. I believed that #PhDs had a responsibility to critique, speak 'truth to power' and play a role in breaking down systemic barriers to human flourishing. 📚 I believed people when they talked about the importance of #freedomofspeech and #academicfreedom. I naively embraced the belief that my university valued #diversity, #equity and #inclusion and #DEI. 🧩🪅Then, that naive belief system came crashing down and was shattered into a million pieces. Today I realize, I will never been so naive again... 🖊️As James Baldwin said: "I can't believe what you say because I see what you do." #Universities #Academic #Academia #postsecondary #discrimination #inequity #postsecondary #Ontario

Interesting article on interdisciplinary curricula in higher education. As someone who has always considered themselves (un)comfortably inter-disciplinary, the methods and findings here are very interesting Two takeaways - Universities within their analysis claiming to be more inter-disciplinary than they actually are - Inter-disciplinary exposure leads to benefits, though more pronounced for non-science students Thanks to Daniel Ginsberg for signposting this and wonder if the folks at LIS: The London Interdisciplinary School have picked this up Isaiah M. Wellington-Lynn Nikita Khandwala #interdisciplinary #education #highereducation

The Power of Multidisciplinary Education: Paving the Path to Success Discover the importance of offering a well-rounded education that combines STEM and humanities. Explore the historical influence of multidisciplinary scholars and how their diverse knowledge shaped our world. Embrace the future by fostering multidisciplinary skills for a successful tomorrow. #MultidisciplinaryEducation #STEMandHumanities #WellRoundedEducation #FutureSkills #EducationMatters #KnowledgeIntegration #FutureSuccess #HolisticLearning #EducationalImpact #PathToSuccess

Higher Degrees or Higher Ambitions? In #IHE118, Christopher Smith asserts that despite the prestige associated with the doctorate, its format and purpose have remained underexamined, especially in fields like the arts and humanities. Some key points include: 🔹 Questioning whether current PhDs truly provide the skills needed for non-academic careers and societal impact 🔹 Exploring innovative models like practice-based research, social innovation projects, and transdisciplinary collaborations 🔹 Rethinking supervision, examination processes, and potential for integrated extended programs 🔹 Demonstrating clear public value and connecting PhDs to industries, policy, communities, and place-based initiatives Read the full article below: https://lnkd.in/dMy9ewZj

Universities have rode the economic wave of political loans to students base not on merit or achievement, but desire alone. This notion that all members of a society should go to college failed to answer the economic question, who can afford to go to college. The jury is out, as an entire generation is strapped with loans they will spend an entire lifetime repaying. Colleges are starting to cut massive programs, noting the come to our school to be taught by other college students getting paid tuition as Teachers assistants to reduce salary costs of the Universities is over. It is also important to identify that a massive push to ignore college degrees as a society needed skill is not all the rage leaving many younger students asking why they need to go to school at all. K-12 is barely teaching reading skills according to statistical numbers and now college may not have any merit. Isn't it time to ask what we need from education? 26 out of 28 in post industrialized societies in math and science is the reality of non accountability.

The Power of Multidisciplinary Education: Paving the Path to Success Discover the importance of offering a well-rounded education that combines STEM and humanities. Explore the historical influence of multidisciplinary scholars and how their diverse knowledge shaped our world. Embrace the future by fostering multidisciplinary skills for a successful tomorrow. #MultidisciplinaryEducation #STEMandHumanities #WellRoundedEducation #FutureSkills #EducationMatters #KnowledgeIntegration #FutureSuccess #HolisticLearning #EducationalImpact #PathToSuccess

Reexamining Educational Trajectories: A Critical Analysis of Limited Academic Pathways The increasing influence of market-driven values in education has resulted in the overshadowing of traditional disciplines by fields perceived as economically advantageous. Having personally experienced pressure to pursue science for its perceived stability, I discovered my true calling in literature and interdisciplinary folklore and cultural studies. This raises a vital question: Why do we persist in enforcing narrow educational pathways rooted in outdated notions of success? By prioritizing fields with immediate economic returns, we compromise the intellectual and creative diversity offered by the humanities and social sciences, constraining individual potential and our collective capacity to address complex global issues with nuance. It is crucial to challenge the pervasive assumption that only select fields hold value, recognizing the essential role of humanities and creative disciplines in fostering critical thinking, empathy, and cultural understanding – qualities urgently needed in today's fractured world. We must redefine our educational valuation paradigm to embrace a more inclusive, intellectually diverse future. #HigherEducation #CriticalThinking #EducationalStereotypes #InterdisciplinaryStudies #HumanitiesMatter #EducationReform #AcademicFreedom

Changes to the Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows program are sharpening students’ skills in producing humanistic scholarship as they benefit from deeper engagement with resident faculty, graduate students and postdocs. ➡️ Read more: https://links.emory.edu/UR #emoryuniversity #emory #humanities

Exciting things are happening at U of I! Check out this article highlighting the newest faculty joining LAS. 💙🧡