Study the Humanities
Expanding Access to History at JMU: A First Case Study
Posted OnDecember 7, 2022 byBy Scott Muir For the past year, NHA has been researching strategies that are succeeding in expanding access to undergraduate humanities education. These include a broad range of initiatives and interventions that have attracted more first generation, BIPOC, and/or low-income students. Some of these efforts have been very intentional about engaging students from specific underrepresented…Read More…
Press Review: Articulating the Value of Undergraduate Humanities Education for Confronting the Crises of the Moment
Posted OnSeptember 27, 2021 byBy Scott Muir Our Study the Humanities toolkit includes collections of compelling articles published in popular publications on the value of the humanities, offering humanities advocates a set of ready-made, accessible arguments to share with prospective students and those who influence their decision-making. We update these article collections periodically, taking stock of trends in coverage of undergraduate humanities…Read More…
A Look Back at Our Summer Webinars on Undergraduate Recruitment Strategies
Posted OnAugust 13, 2021 byBy Scott Muir This summer we delved into recruitment strategies featured in our new report, Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities: A Comprehensive Resource, through a four-part webinar series. Each virtual event explored a range of approaches featured within a particular chapter of the report: (1) Articulating Career Pathways, (2) Curricular Innovations, (3) Cultivating…Read More…
Advisors as Recruitment Allies: Fostering Humanities Identity and Community
Posted OnJune 15, 2021 byBy Scott Muir Advising staff are key allies in recruitment; after all, they are the ones who help students select their courses and major/minor(s). The history department at the University of Oklahoma has shown how professional advisors can make a significant impact on recruitment far beyond their 1:1 advising responsibilities. Sarah Olzawski was hired as senior academic…Read More…
Launching Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities
Posted OnApril 8, 2021 byBy Scott Muir After a decade of widespread decline in humanities majors and enrollments and in the face of formidable new pressures precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for effective humanities recruitment strategies has never been clearer. Fortunately, humanists across the country have been busy innovating new approaches to attract more students to the…Read More…
Celebrating our Partners this National Arts and Humanities Month
Posted OnOctober 2, 2020 byBy Stephen Kidd Each October, we celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month by calling attention to the many ways humanities research, teaching, and programs serve students and communities across the country. This year, with the country in the midst of a reckoning with racial injustice and facing a pandemic that has caused widespread suffering and…Read More…
Career Counseling for Humanities Majors: Navigating Ambiguity
Posted OnJune 16, 2020 byBy Scott Muir Our recent Humanities Recruitment Survey (HRS) revealed a consensus among faculty and administrators across institution types that “student concerns about job prospects” is the most influential challenge to attracting undergraduates to the humanities. Over the past year, we’ve been updating the career outcomes data in our Study the Humanities toolkit and collecting effective strategies for articulating career pathways…Read More…
Workshopping Humanities Recruitment Strategies at the NHA Annual Meeting
Posted OnMay 5, 2020 byBy Scott Muir As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten and disrupt our lives, we look toward an uncertain future for higher education. However the crisis unfolds, it seems clear that our society will need humanities education more than ever, but securing support for it will be even more difficult in the face of enormous financial…Read More…
Annual Meeting Sneak Peek: Workshops on Attracting Students to the Humanities
Posted OnFebruary 24, 2020 byBy Scott Muir We are looking forward to kicking off this year’s NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day with a deep dive into undergraduate recruitment strategies. We’ll begin by sharing what we learned about recruitment challenges at nearly 300 diverse institutions through our 2019 Humanities Recruitment Survey, as well as the audiences faculty and administrators are…Read More…