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A variety of outlets, from The Wall Street Journal to the Harvard Business Review , reported on a 2018 study of “office housework” and how women—pa...

Florida A&M University, a historically black university founded in 1887, continually endeavors to give students opportunities to excel. In the earl...

In January, I visited the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. One of the things not a lot of people know about me is that, for ...

A growing amount of higher education research forecasts an imminent decline in student enrollment and warns of an impending storm on the horizon. T...

To recognize the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will devote...

There's a guitar sitting in the corner of my office. It's been sitting there for months now, actually more than six, but who's keeping count? My fa...

In early December 2019, Columbia University NY launched a global initiative specifically targeting refugees, asylum seekers and individuals with te...

There are moments when I'm teaching when time dissolves into stillness. A warm, complex light shines through the slice of white window blinds. The ...

2019 wasn't a good year. The world seemed to be on fire. Multiple reports offered dire warnings about climate change and the fate of our planet. Th...

It's November 2016, the day after Thanksgiving. I'm at an amusement park with my family, and my kids and their cousins are all grins and laughter a...

I'm guessing that many WIHE readers are familiar with the idea of the inner critic—that voice that lives in our heads who is just no fun. They crit...

Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández was already an award‐winning author, scholar and academic, but in September 2019 her career took another step forward whe...

Last November, I attended an annual conference of religious studies scholars, which I’ve attended on and off for the 17 years I’ve been a member of...

There is increasing interest in films from South Asia, and Priyadarshini Shanker finds great satisfaction in giving her students insights and conte...

As I considered how to write a holiday piece that would benefit WIHE readers, I thought of the following groups: trans* folx, disabled individuals,...

About a month ago, a producer of a new podcast emailed me to ask me to participate in a show on zombies. This isn't as strange of a request as it f...

Are your thoughts really your own? Or are they the product of your social network? Are screens destroying the fabric of society? Will we ever be ab...

Much like scientists, artist Carol Prusa seeks new ways of explaining the world around us and beyond. She originally studied chemistry, using a lab...

On my birthday, in August, an essay on sexism in the academy was published in the online version of a prestigious magazine. It appeared again and a...

Dr. Brené Brown is a multilevel phenomenon. There's her TED Talk on vulnerability (43 million views and counting), several New York Times bestselle...