The Changing Humanities 
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The Changing Humanities: UVA’s Praxis Program
In a recent op-ed as part of The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Digital Campus special issue, Bethany Nowviskie, director of Digital Research and Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, highlights UVA’s Praxis Program. The program, a competitively-awarded yearlong digital methods workshop and apprenticeship designed [...]
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Humanities and Public Life – A New Book Series
In a recent article for Inside Higher Ed, Teresa Mangum, associate professor of English and director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa, announced the launch of a new book series from the University of Iowa press: Humanities and Public Life. The series, edited by Mangum and Anne Valk, associate [...]
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The Humanities and the Corporate World: Dedicated Deep Thinkers
In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education (link to PDF), history professor Peter A. Coclanis – noting the importance of innovation to many businesses and the establishment in recent years of high-level positions like the CINO, or the chief innovation officer, in many businesses – argues for the creation of a new [...]
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Liberal Arts in Asia
A recent article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the recent institution of liberal arts programs in some of the top universities in China and East Asia. The article is detailed and primarily focuses on China, covering issues ranging from how to marry the study of Eastern and Western cultures, the wide variety [...]
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The Future of the Humanities: A Think Tank
Professors Paul Jay, Gerald Graff, and Gregory Jay, authors of the article “Fear of Being Useful,” which appeared in Inside Higher Ed at the beginning of January (profiled here on the 4Humanities site), have started a website called “The Future of the Humanities: A Think Tank.” The website is meant to serve, the authors claim, [...]
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New Approach to Defending the Value of the Humanities
In a recent piece in Inside Higher Ed, professors Paul Jay and Gerald Graff review some of the most recent contributions to the conventional wisdom on the current crisis in the humanities, outlining the divide between “traditionalists” and “revisionists,” both of which argue that “the humanities should resist our culture’s increasing fixation on a practical, [...]
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Open Letter on Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
NET4SOCIETY and other organizations have drafted an Open Letter on the Socio-economic sciences and the humanities. The letter to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation calls for inclusion of the social sciences and humanities in large-scale research programmes (which is presumably not the case now.) They argue, While for many questions, natural, human and [...]
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A Different Kind of College and University Ranking
Washington Monthly has recently published its college and university rankings, and the result is much different from the more traditional kinds of rankings published by outlets like U.S. News & World Report. Conceived of as a counter to the U.S. News rankings, which emphasize admission rates and prestige, Washington Monthly‘s rankings focus on “how well [...]
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Top Students in Britain Shun Humanities
The numbers of applications to study traditional humanities subjects like English, history, classics, and philosophy at British universities have fallen this year, The Telegraph reports. Experts say the trend is due to fears over the economy and the cost of a university education, with students applying to study subjects like law, teaching, and accounting that [...]
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Duke’s “Humanities Writ Large” Initiative
Duke University has received a five-year, $6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help support and emphasize the role of the humanities the undergraduate curriculum. The “Humanities Writ Large” initiative will support visiting scholars and new faculty appointments, undergraduate research, humanities labs, and interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and institutions. As reported in [...]
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Margaret Conrad on “Rescuing the Humanities One Website at a Time”
Margaret Conrad was awarded the 2011 SDH/SEMI Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities prize. Award winners are asked to give an address to the Society meeting and she spoke about “Rescuing the Humanities One Website at a Time” (PDF of full talk.) Her moving talk wove personal history together with a general discussion [...]
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Campaign for the Future of Higher Education Launches May 17
The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE) is a grassroots national campaign to support higher education. Initiated in Los Angeles, California on January 21, 2011 by leaders of faculty organizations from 21 states, the mission of the campaign is to ensure that quality higher education is accessible to all in the coming decades. [...]
