And they are shrinking everywhere else. Here is Scott Jaschik at Insider Higher Ed: Before the pandemic, the humanities were experiencing a period of substantial growth at community colleges but shrinkage everywhere else. And that extends to the entire world....
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The Number of History Majors is Growing at Community Colleges
Do you want to be on the front lines of college history education? Then consider a job teaching history at a community college. Fewer students are entering college these days, but History majors are growing at 2-year institutions of higher...
AHA 2018 Dispatch: Teaching History in Community Colleges
We are pleased to have Professor Mike Davis writing for The Way of Improvement Leads Home this weekend from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Davis teaches at Northwest Florida State College. He is a scholar...
Junior College Creates Endowed Chair in American History
As the humanities and American history struggle at four-year colleges, a Florida junior college has established an endowed chair in American history. Good for them. Here is a taste of the story behind the Mr. and Mrs. T.T. Wentworth Jr....
The Mississippi River: The Flow of Religion, Tourism, and Music
Our reports from the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) continue to roll into The Way of Improvement Leads Home. This report comes from Melissa Daggett, an instructor of United States history at San Jacinto College in...
Teaching Plato to Plumbers
My brother is a plumber. I don’t think he has ever read Plato but I think he might find Plato’s ideas interesting if they were translated into twenty-first century vernacular. I thought of Chris as I read Scott Samuelson‘s piece...
Study Historic Preservation on Nantucket Island This Summer
Main Street, Nantucket, MA If you have $1850, you can spend a week this summer on Nantucket studying historic preservation as part of Bucks County (PA) Community College’s Historic Preservation Program. First of all, I had no idea that Bucks...
Community Colleges Are Liberal Arts Colleges
While we normally think of community colleges and junior colleges as places where students go for vocational training and hands-on skills, Rob Jenkins, an English professor at Georgia-Perimeter College in Georgia, reminds us that most students who transfer from a...