–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, […]
Voices For the Humanities
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]