Edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Christine Henseler Call for Essays When the general public hears the word “entrepreneurship” and reads articles and magazines that sell us on the “100 Most Entrepreneurial People in __________ (fill in the blank),” they usually think of new business models and products in technology and the sciences. “Entrepreneurship” is rarely […]
The Entrepreneurial Humanities
My Journey to the Digital Humanities: The Story of a Double Major
By Helen Foley (reposted from the WhatEvery1Says (WE1S) project site; first published Dec. 1, 2020) Every time I tell someone I double majored in Economics and English, I receive the same reactions: “Oh wow, what an interesting pairing,” or “Huh. Wow. I wouldn’t have expected those two to go together.” In the simplest terms, the majority […]
WE1S Project Enters Home Stretch in Its Final Summer Research Camp
4Humanities.org’s WhatEvery1Says (WE1S) project is racing this summer to conclude its three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. During an intensive July summer research camp, 38 project participants across the project’s three campuses—UC Santa Barbara; California State U., Northridge; and U. Miami—are doing sprint work to finish research on WE1S’s massive collections of journalistic […]
Bianca Yeung, “Labs and Literature: A New Way Forward for Education”
« A Humanities, Plain & Simple Post » By Bianca “Bee” Yeung ‘Hey now, I don’t want to be that guy, but trust me, I’m coming from a good place when I say this: you should really switch from Arts to Science.’ It was the pointy end of Semester 1 and one of the more […]
Kate Osterholtz, Hayden Paneth, Kathleen Sinatra, with Christine Henseler, “Social Change through Storytelling”
How Union College students are publishing a book series on Amazon to raise their voices and affect change « A Humanities, Plain & Simple Post » This article was written by three students who took the “Millennials and Social Change “ class in the spring of 2018 at Union College, NY. It has been pulled […]
Creativity and Human-Centered Teaching is the Wave of the Future — An Interview with Christine Henseler
By Megan Brown In a world that is seemingly angled towards math and science in education, Professor Christine Henseler of Union College is making strides to rebalance that trend. Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies, and a teacher of courses in English on Social Change and the Arts and Humanities, Henseler is using her ingrained […]
The Millennial Wave and the Changing Nature of Work
By Susan Frost and Christine Henseler. It was the onset of a business revolution. Information management professionals were in high demand. Data became increasingly vital to a new-age economy. Sounds like today, right? Well, it might surprise you to learn that we’re talking about the mid-nineteenth century. In 1853, the modern office, as we know […]