The humanities are on the decline, and we are all worse off for it. In June, Business Insider published an article bemoaning the effects of “the war against humanities.” The increased emphasis on STEM ...

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock ...

When artist Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown came across postcards with photographs of unidentified Black women from the early 20th century, she felt an immediate kinship. "I saw them and wanted to know ...

Payoff, debt and population have driven an enrollment decline in traditional humanities programs across the nation and state, especially in majors such as English, history and philosophy. Virginia ...

Do American universities produce too many Ph.D.s? It’s a decades-old question that has intensified in recent years as worries about a stagnant academic-job market, record graduate-student debt, and ...

Students from Miami's Latiné Student Alliance rally for support and gather signatures outside Armstrong Student Center Humanities programs have been on the decline nationwide. Now, Miami University ...

Virginia Tech’s Master of Arts in English program is currently not accepting applications for the 2026-27 academic year. According to the Department of English, the program is being dissolved, but ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Cornerstone University has let go of six professors as it reorganizes its programs, combining some and expanding others. “There were a small number of majors that we ...

The Humanities Program offers students the opportunity to intensify and expand their undergraduate study by writing an Honors Thesis, which is an independent study with the goal of graduating with ...