O nce again, there are signs of deep trouble for the humanities in higher education — in the Western world, if not the world as a whole. News of closures trickles in relentlessly. At New Zealand’s ...

This story is the second in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year. A few years ago, Sunil Amrith was a rising star at ...

Across the board, fewer students are opting to study subjects like English, history, philosophy and the arts, according to data showing a steady decline in the number of humanities degrees conferred ...

Ball State’s new Humanities in Action program will finance paid internships for humanities majors through a $2.5 million Mellon Foundation grant.

"It was a hard year,” Christina Barr says of 2025, speaking of Nevada Humanities but voicing a wider truth. The catastrophic, ...

In the early hours of April 2, Elon Musk’s inaccurately titled Department of Government Efficiency abruptly and illegally canceled hundreds of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant ...

With the cacophonous chatter of climate crises, energy disparities and ecological challenges, the study of environmental humanities aims to bring a humanistic touch to science. Hosted in the ...

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 ...

The death of the humanities. The undying "well, what are you planning on doing with that?" This perceived ‘death’ has plagued students in these fields for as long as they decided that math, science ...

BISMARCK — Humanities North Dakota has received $300,000 in private donations to keep its doors open after it learned earlier this month all its federal funding had been terminated. That figure ...