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Massive cuts at West Virginia University send a damaging and devastatingly inaccurate message to everyone from students to presidents of other colleges and universities that the humanities, and especially the study of languages and culture, are reserved for those who can afford to pay the tuition at private colleges and universities, writes Paula M. Krebs of the Modern Language Association.

Massive cuts at West Virginia University send a damaging and devastatingly inaccurate message to everyone from students to presidents of other colleges and universities that the humanities, and especially the study of languages and culture, are reserved for those who can afford to pay the tuition at private colleges and universities, writes Paula M. Krebs of the Modern Language Association.

Massive cuts at West Virginia University send a damaging and devastatingly inaccurate message to everyone from students to presidents of other colleges and universities that the humanities, and especially the study of languages and culture, are reserved for those who can afford to pay the tuition at private colleges and universities, writes Paula M. Krebs of the Modern Language Association.

‘It’s sad that Harvard, which once embraced free speech, now seems to quietly abandon it,’ alumnus and GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tells the Sun.

Concerns about high tuitions and student debt, a new study suggests, obscure consensus on nonmaterial benefits of college to individuals and societies.

Preliminary data from the NSF indicate that COVID-19 hit Ph.D. production hard in 2021, but job-placement data are surprisingly rosy—just not in academe.

The year marked a historic decline in the share of upper-level degree holders in the discipline. But they like their jobs.

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The Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, has released new findings on the earnings and occupations of humanities majors. Among the findings: older humanities majors do indeed make more than younger humanities majors. But there’s no evidence that their earnings ever “catch up” to peers in other disciplines.