The arts and humanities are too often dismissed as an unaffordable luxury, when these disciplines underpin vital human skills such as critical thinking, creativity and communication. This collection ...

Drama students learning their craft. Theater programs are among arts and humanities disciplines being reduced or eliminated at public universities around the country. (Shutterstock) It’s been a bad ...

The University of Chicago is considering a substantial restructuring of the school’s arts and humanities division to cut costs, citing historic financial strain under the Trump administration. In an ...

For more than 130 years, the arts and humanities at the University of Chicago have played an important role in the evolution of those fields in America and across all of higher education. It is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The first grants under the initiative were announced in 2022, when a total of $16.1 million in competitive awards was made to ...

National Arts and Humanities Month in October celebrates the crucial role of the arts and humanities to connect communities and cultures, promote inclusion, enhance wellbeing and make a difference in ...

In their teaching and research, Princeton University’s humanities faculty keep their intellectual antennas tuned to what Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett calls “the frequencies of ideas,” crackling ...

President Paul Alivisatos and Provost Katherine Baicker sent a campus-wide message on April 9 announcing the unification of UChicago Arts and the Humanities Division into one division: the Division of ...