A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. […]
An effort to measure how well equality across genders is progressing around the world, using a tool developed around United Nations-developed goals, has detected “little progress” in the last half decade.
In his new book, Richard Heller proposes a model he calls the distributed university – that is, a university that distributes education online to where it is needed.
As a student, recalls Bennie Kara, school was a haven. And that haven beckoned to her as she mapped out […]
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are here and in full swing. From serene skaters on ice to dramatic showdowns on […]
Amanda Paul at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto reviewed Opening Doors to Diversity […]
“In times of crisis, the humanities and social sciences inform and guide our response — raising awareness of the issues, analyzing options and helping shape public policy,” according to a new report by Canada’s Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
A new report on supporting the big data infrastructure needs of universities offers a variety of real-world recommendations for improving the research environment.
Women continue to be underutilized and underrepresented in senior-decision making roles, notes Shezadi Khushal as she explains lessons she drew from the book ‘Women and Leadership.’
Texas A&M’s Sarah Dennis surveyed librarians and their conference -going thoughts with an aim is to find “multiple ways to make conferences better for everyone, in-person or virtually.”
A few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.
Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
