Several days ago, 4Humanities reported on the “State of the University” speech that David Skorton, President of Cornell University, gave on October 29, 2010, in which he made a bold, strong call for supporting the humanities and arts. In addition to making the full text of the address available on the site of the Cornell […]
Teaching Police Observational Skills through Art History
Amy Herman, head of education at the Frick Collection in New York City, has since 2004 offered “The Art of Observation” program, which offers members of the NYC police, the FBI, and the National Guard professional training in observational technique by using art works in the Frick holdings. Adapted from a similar program that the […]
Register for “Humanities Advocacy Day 2011” in Washington, D.C.
The National Humanities Alliance in the U.S. has opened registration for its 2011 Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., March 7-8, 2011. Scholars, higher education and association leaders, and policy makers will convene for an annual conversation on the state of the humanities and to make their voices heard on the Hill. Plan to attend […]
Haiti Lab
Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute has started an initiative to create “humanities laboratories” that convene groups of faculty and students to work on interdisciplinary humanities research and pedagogy in spaces specially designed for collaborative work and focused on using technology as a “tool for research, research dissemination, pedagogy, and collection/archive development. The first of these […]
Cornell University President Calls for Campaign for the Humanities
In his State of the University Address at Cornell University on October 29, 2010, and in later interviews, David Skorton, President of Cornell, has made a bold call for advocacy for the humanities at his university and nationwide in the U.S. It is “time for Cornell to step up and advocate for arts and humanities […]
Debate: Do Colleges Need French Departments? – Room for Debate
The New York Times has a nice feature called Room for Debate where a number of pundits write short opinion pieces on a subject. In October debaters like Martha Nussbaum takled the question, Do Colleges Need French Departments?. This debate was in response to the State University of New York at Albany cancelling a bunch […]
Students protest tuition increases around the world
Students are protesting tuition fees around the world. The Guardian reports on the third day of tuition fee hike protests in the UK, Student protesters ignore winter freeze with mass rallies against tuition fees. In Italy students protested the proposed education reforms in more than one city, and in California The New York Times reports […]