Interviewed by Times Higher Education in the U.K., Allan Goodman, President and CEO of the non-profit Institute for International Education, argues that universities should produce “as many poets as physicists.” From Times Higher Education: Business should pay for degrees in subjects such as science and technology, with public funding directed towards the arts and humanities, […]
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The Importance of the Humanities for African-American Students
Writing in The Chronicle Review in the Opinion & Ideas section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Marybeth Gasman — an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania — reflects on cuts to the undergraduate curriculum being considered at Howard University, one of the U.S.’s historically black universities. Gasman […]
A Medical Doctor’s Advocacy of the Humanities
Richard Smith, a British medical doctor who was formerly head of UnitedHealth Europe and editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), makes a case in the BMJ Blogs for “Medicine’s need for the humanities.” He reflects: Perhaps the most urgent problem in health care is to change attitudes to dying, and here, I suggest, the […]
Undergraduates Write Manifesto on Digital Humanities
Students in an honors course on “Introduction to Digital Humanities” at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania have written for the Student Voices section of 4Humanities a “Manifesto” on why they “believe that teaching digital humanities to undergraduate students is critically important” for showing “digital natives,” as they call themselves, how to broaden the connection between the […]
Measuring the Value of Culture in the United Kingdom
Dr. David O’Brien of Leeds Metropolitan University has produced a commissioned report for the UK’s Department for Culture Media and Sport on “Measuring the Value of Culture.” The 66-page report is highly technical in its blend of economic, humanities, and governmental (bureaucratic) methods and vocabularies—certainly not something intended for the “public” or even for most […]
Major Infusion of Funds for Humanities at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, announced on December 20, 2010, that it has received $10 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—matched by another $10 million from the state of Wisconsin—to support the humanities by sustaining strength in core areas, hiring new faculty, and supporting postdoctoral and graduate students. In her statement about the award, […]
PhDComics (continued)
From Jorge Cham’s Piled Higher & Deeper: A Grad Student Comic Strip. (Used by permission.) See previous PhDComics strip