The University of Glasgow reports about a collaboration between a business keen to restore an old distillery and Professor John Corbett, a humanist (a historical linguist). See University of Glasgow: Raising a glass to the past. They were connected through Interface, which is “a matchmaking service connecting businesses quickly and easily to world class expertise, […]
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Chad Gaffield on People-Centred Innovation
Chad Gaffield, the President of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, gave a talk yesterday at the University of Alberta on how innovation involves people. This talk was part of a at a Festival of Ideas event celebrating Social Science and Humanities research that included a panel on “Does the Internet Lie?”. […]
Crisis of the Humanities II
Stanley Fish has two Opinionator columns on the “crisis of the humanities.” In Crisis of the Humanities II he argues that the position that some humanities departments are subsidizing STEM areas because we teach so many students cheaply only applies at the colleges that charge high tuition fees. He goes on to write about how […]
Rising Tuition
Rising Tuition costs are one of the issues facing youth and parents as they choose universities. The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has an article titled Tuition fees on the rise … again which covers the Canadian scene. Associated with the article is an interactive panel Canada’s climbing tuition fees. The article, which is based on […]
Martha Piper: Building a Civil Society: A New Role for the Human Sciences
Martha C. Piper’s 2002 Killam Lecture, Building a Civil Society: A New Role for the Human Sciences (PDF) argues that support of humanities and social science research is needed for a civil society. This lecture received significant attention in Canada, in part because it was one of the documents the Social Science and Humanities Research […]
Edmonton Journal: Tuition hikes are regressive, unfair
The Edmonton Journal published an opinion piece by David Robinson titled, Tuition hikes are regressive, unfair (November 13th, 2010.) Robinson, who is associated with the Canadian Association of University Teachers, tackles the view that tuition fees have no effect on enrollment. He concludes with, What we do know in Canada is that tuition fee levels […]
Zotero Group: Sustaining Scholarship and Culture
A group led by Susan Brown is preparing a report on Sustaining Digital Scholarship for Sustainable Culture for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They have been gathering a bibliography on this subject on Zotero, Sustaining Scholarship and Culture.