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Dec 11, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa |Muslim women |Antoinette Burton
The Maternity and Infant Welfare Exhibition in Delhi, held in 1920, aimed at educating mothers to look properly after their children hoping to reduce illness and mortality. The organisation of the event involved the participation of different entities and people. On the one hand, the Delhi Deputy Commissioner, Delhi Municipality and the Association of Medical Women in India figured prominently.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
chicagobusiness.com | Antoinette Burton |Gene Robinson |Rohit Bhargava |Stephen A. Boppart
Amid the flurry of headlines in recent weeks about the fate of higher education under the second Trump administration, remarkably little has been said about what direction education and research should actually take as we head toward the fourth decade of the 21st century.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
visiblemagazine.com | Antoinette Burton
Ever since the publication of Steven M.R. Covey’s book The Speed of Trust in 2006, leaders across practically every sector of the economy—from corporations to nonprofits to higher education—have invoked the concept as the key to organizational success, real and symbolic profit, and institutional identity. Forbes Magazine has touted “the speed of trust” as a learnable skill key to cost-saving at all scales.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Antoinette Burton
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Antoinette Burton
ShareThis week, as residential students flood the quad at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, there’s a less visible but equally might tide of students coming to campus: the 2024 cohort of Odyssey Project scholars. And those scholars are going to receive something that is as precious, if not more so, than the opportunity to study with the world class humanities faculty we have at the U of I. They are going to get their course books for free.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
smilepolitely.com | Antoinette Burton
This week, as residential students flood the quad at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, there’s a less visible but equally might tide of students coming to campus: the 2024 cohort of Odyssey Project scholars. And those scholars are going to receive something that is as precious, if not more so, than the opportunity to study with the world class humanities faculty we have at the U of I. They are going to get their course books for free.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
chicagotribune.com | Antoinette Burton
As the next academic year approaches at colleges and universities across the country, U.S. higher education faces a number of cliffs. Recently, three institutions — Wittenberg College, the University of New Orleans and Western Illinois University — announced devastating cuts attributed in part to long-range trends in decreasing enrollment. In his 2018 book “Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education,” economics professor Nathan D.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
visiblemagazine.com | Antoinette Burton
Humanists have long understood themselves as the canary in the coal mine of higher education. That is, if the canary is a sign of deep structural failure and a harbinger of greater challenges to come, humanists recognize the crisis in their part of the academic mineshaft as an indicator of broader danger. As graduations are ongoing this month across the country, and students commit to universities and colleges for the coming academic year, the crisis in the humanities shows no signs of abating.
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May 28, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | Antoinette Burton
As acceptance letters arrive and graduation season looms, many high school seniors are planning where they spend their college years. Sadly, one institution not accepting incoming freshmen is Cabrini University in Radnor. Cabrini’s president, Helen Drinan, announced last year that the private Catholic school, founded in 1957 in memory of the first canonized American saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, would close at the end of this academic year.
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May 23, 2024 | 
techpolicy.press | Antoinette Burton
Antoinette Burton is a professor of History and the director of the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project. The scramble in US higher education over how best to capture the runaway train that is artificial intelligence (AI) shows few signs of abating.
