In a recent post for the Choose Humanities blog and in light of the recent banking scandals in the UK, doctoral student Jonathan Lewis writes about the importance of a historically-inflected study of ethics today. Lewis’s post, entitled “Learning your lessons: what the Humanities could teach the bankers,” addresses not only the need for more […]
Advocacy Statements & Campaigns
Alan Liu, “The Humanities and Tomorrow’s Discoveries”
“Silicon Valley Needs Humanities Students”
In his column for The Washington Post, Vivek Wadhwa — a technology entrepreneur and Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University–writes: “In 2008, my research team at Duke and Harvard surveyed 652 U.S.-born chief executive officers and heads of product engineering at 502 technology companies. We found that they tended to be highly […]
How Are Funding Issues Impacting Humanities Education at Universities?
–Report contributed to 4Humanities by Jessica Meyer When budget season hits the federal government and the debate begins about where and how to cut spending, a perennial favorite target is the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and its sister organization, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEH, created in 1965 by Congress, […]
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 […]
Why STEM is Not Enough
In a piece for The Washington Post, Cathy N. Davidson, Paula Barker Duffy, and Martha Wagner Weinberg – all council members of the National Council on the Humanities – argue for an emphasis on the benefits of a combined education in both STEM subjects and the arts and humanities. Citing many of the speakers at […]
Fighting for the Humanities
In a recent piece entitled “Fighting for the Humanities: Who will bankroll poetry?” published in Academe, Professor and President of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) Cary Nelson calls for “a humanities offensive.” Nelson’s substantial and wide-ranging piece covers, among among other things, the significant differences in public perceptions of the sciences and the […]