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History’s Future

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Mills

The March 2014 issue of Perspectives includes a very clear analysis of the most recent IPEDS data on history BAs by Allen Mikaelian. Everyone currently teaching college history or planning to do so should read this article. Why? A quick glance at this graph should at least given one pause. What is shows is a…

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Future of Higher Education Conference (5)

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Mills

After being forced to miss the final session yesterday (sorry Dan), I’m back at it at the #masonfuture conference. The day began with some tentative summary of Day 1 by President Cabrera, who charged the room with continuing to think about “preconceived notions we came with that we are now questioning.” One of the notions…

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New Data from D.C.

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Mills

The U.S. government is beginning to post its vast collection of data sets online. At the moment, there are only 47 data sets posted at data.gov and most of these are geological or weather related. However, it won’t be long (I’m told) before data of greater interest to historians begin to appear. I, for one,…

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Quantifying the Humanities

Posted on January 7, 2009January 7, 2009 by Mills

The rising importance of metrics for evaluation in higher education has more than a few of my friends and colleagues on edge. What will it mean, for instance, when colleges and universities see the same sorts of assessment data generated for the humanities that already exist in K-12 education? Will we see graduation exams in…

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