A report released today and commissioned by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and undertaken by the Center for Business Research (CBR) at Cambridge Judge Business School has shown that academics from the arts and humanities interact widely across the private, public and third sectors. The report, Hidden Connections, is the biggest study of […]
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. […]
The Changing Profession
Inside Higher Ed has published a substantial article on the challenges facing many university professors in the United States, emphasizing the shrinking numbers of tenured and tenure-track faculty at many institutions. The article discusses many reasons for this decline, including long-term, systemic, external and ideological reasons that pre-date the current financial crisis: “The American professoriate […]
You’re getting the universities you want
The Globe and Mail (Canada) has a bunch of articles looking at universities and the place of the humanities. One is by Clifford Orwin of the University of Toronto titled, You’re getting the universities you want – and deserve. He argues that societal pressures on public universities don’t give us much wiggle room. Society wants […]
American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting: Humanities and Higher Education
The annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, a national group that represents scholarly associations in the Humanities, ended on Saturday in Washington, D.C. Many talks focused on the value of the humanities to American innovation and to democratic citizenship. David Marshall, dean of humanities and fine arts at the University of California […]
Macquarie University’s Vice-Chancellor Steven Schwartz on the Humanities and a Meaningful Life
Steven Schwartz, the Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has published a review of several books on the state of the humanities in this month’s Australian Literary Review. The books Schwartz reviews emphasize the value of the humanities in a university culture increasingly dominated by the goal of making money: In Saving Higher Education […]
BiblioTech: Bringing Humanities Ph.D. Innovation to Silicon Valley
On May 11, 2011, executive officers and venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and humanities faculty and doctoral students from Stanford University will come together to discuss the ways in which humanities doctoral students can help Silicon Valley businesses and how these businesses can enlist humanities Ph.D.’s. Keynote speakers will include Vivek Ranadivé, Chairman and CEO […]