#Humanities

Dr. Celucien L. Joseph, PhD

doctorlou1978

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/08/18/grad-schools-should-halt-doctoral-admissions-humanities-two-years-opinion"These trends should disturb anyone who advises Ph.D. students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences a

Morgan Gardiner

MorganLGardiner

There are different motives for the government's change to university funding, but there's one that seems underdiscussed – Increasing the cost of humanities degrees does not devalue them, just as

Pelagia

Ljiljana1972

In defending arts and humanities from funding cuts too much weight is often put on their prosthetic function. But to defend them as a therapy or mind's Prozac feels wrong

erin pineda

erinrpineda

It’s very interesting to compare mainstream reactions to the respective crises of science vs the humanities in the US. Faced with widespread public distrust of science, the spread of anti-vaxxer

NEH

NEHgov

Since the National Council for the Humanities meets this week with @NEHchair, we want to share the history behind this event and why it’s so important! [Thread] In 1966, President

Adam Kotsko

adamkotsko

No humanities curriculum has automatic, built-in moral or political results. A social justice-oriented curriculum could cause some students to recoil and become even more conservative or reactionary; a traditional curriculum

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Ok, so two things. Humanities: Exist. But like clockwork the call for inventing new disciplines that will teach us about the past/critical thinking/truth/the meaning of life* comes and at the

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) I see the critical comments in the article here so would just like to address a few things. The common theme in how I address them is this: live

DesiValentine

DesiValentine4

We all know that unbiased education is impossible, right? We do all know that objective truth cannot exist in the humanities - literature, social studies, the arts - because any

Rebecca Futo Kennedy 🏛️ 🏺

kataplexis

In Jan 2016, I had a coffee with @donnazuck after what had happened to her after publishing “How to be a good classicist”. I was chair then on WCC and

R.Сам 🦋🐏

Logo_Daedalus

There needs to be more ruthless credentialism in the humanities I’m talking about the sort of brutal discipline in JE Williams “Stoner” where a prospective grad student is bullied to

Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley

lottelydia

So: we currently charge the same for a humanities degree as a STEM degree and subsidise the latter from the former, because the alternative is that only posh kids can

British Philosophical Association

BritishPhiloso1

The BPA are saddened to hear about the threat of cuts to academic jobs in the arts & humanities at Roehampton University. We encourage you to sign the open letter

Kari Dru

KariDru

I've got thoughts about "if more people studied non-stem fields we wouldn't have a nazi problem" and if you've been near me a while you know I often have such

Amardeep Singh

Electrostani

I was recently invited to fill out a reputational survey for English Ph.D. programs for U.S. News & World Report. I agreed to do it, but I kept thinking --

Kaye Sullivan

KayeESullivan

I’m proud to have BA after my name. I was drawn to an Arts degree because it matched my strengths and interests. My parents didn’t go to Uni. My eldest

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