Dive Brief:

• The number of humanities departments at four-year colleges and universities remained relatively stable between the 2007-08 and 2012-13 school years, according to surveys by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• The surveys showed that the number of faculty members in humanities was also relatively unchanged, as was the percentage of tenure-track faculty — a solid majority — and part-time faculty — less than a third.
• For introductory courses, full-time faculty taught about 75% of the students. For non-introductory courses, the full-timers taught 86% of students.

Dive Insight:

The surveys indicated that humanities departments are not embracing digital humanities — a combination of computing and traditional humanities, Inside Higher Ed Reported. Of the humanities departments surveyed, 24% had a digital humanities center or lab, while only 15% had at least one course on digital research methods. As for foreign-language degree programs, the schools surveyed cut 12% of them from the 2007-08 to 20012-13 academic years and 21% of their combined English/foreign-language programs, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.