WebinAAR: The State of the Humanities at HBCUs

Details

July 24, 2024
3:00 PM ET
Presented on Zoom

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Summary

Current challenges to the humanities are shared across schools large and small, public and private. This WebinAAR provides an opportunity to receive an update on how humanities programs are doing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with valuable insights from Regine Jackson, Dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division at Morehouse College, who will offer a broad assessment of the current state of liberal arts education as well as the role of the study of religion at an HBCU.

This is part of a monthly webinar series of AAR’s Relations Committee (ARC); all of these meetings tackle topics of direct relevance to the success of a department (comprised of a 30-minute interview with the guest and then a 30-minute open Q&A for those attending the session). The interview portion of each webinar is recorded and eventually posted on the ARC page on the AAR site.

Panelist

Regine O. Jackson | Jackson earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Michigan, was the Chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Agnes Scott College (2017-2021) and is currently the Dean of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, and Arts Division at Morehouse College. 

Host

Russell T. McCutcheon | McCutcheon is a university research professor in the department of religious studies at the University of Alabama, where he was also a longtime department chair. He chairs AAR’s Academic Relations Committee.