A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, DC, found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified ...

Neubauer Collegium project to articulate value of humanistic scholarship and teaching in higher education and society ...

MUSCAT: A recently-conducted study called for the restoration of humanities in the higher education system, being a ...

The humanities have entered a new era, one focused on deconstructing power and privilege, rethinking race and identity, and reimagining justice and equality. The goal is no longer just to interpret ...

The humanities have served as the cornerstone of higher education since their very inception. According to the National Humanities Center, this academic discipline includes the study of history, ...

This post was updated Nov. 12 at 8:24p.m. The bridge connecting humanities and social sciences to the environment may not be as treacherous as we are conditioned to think. There is a common ...

In their teaching and research, Princeton University’s humanities faculty keep their intellectual antennas tuned to what Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett calls “the frequencies of ideas,” crackling ...

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities ...

Telling somebody your major can prompt a variety of responses, ranging from impressed gasps to vacant stares. As college students, most of us can probably agree that different fields of study have ...

A TV program about Bergen-Belsen prompts Rob over at A Comfortable Place to ask whether critics like Matthew Arnold and F.R. Leavis were wrong to believe that studying the humanities makes us better ...

The humanities are an often misunderstood group of majors. Because non-humanities degrees like nursing and business, for example, seem to have a more clear post-collegiate track, some may think that ...