humanities Archives

FUTUREU FORUM: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, Professor Christopher A. Snyder on “The Principles of a Liberal Arts Education”

November 24, Noon, Eastern & 11 a.m. Central Time

by Future U/ November 22, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Podcast, Public Higher Ed, Video/

"The humanities once mattered. Better to be the subject of political debate than to be marginalized or dismissed as irrelevant." …

by Future U/ November 8, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

"SUNY Potsdam will lay off faculty in conjunction with the consolidation, but has not disclosed how many."

by Future U/ November 7, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

The Chronicle of Higher Education: "What sort of education must a public flagship provide?"

by Future U/ August 22, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"These cuts go beyond what’s reasonable and straight into territory of absurdity.”

by Future U/ August 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Teaching/

"Every person trained in humanities teaching/research knows the damage we are sustaining, from the personal to the national."

by Future U/ June 27, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

The NYT’s rejoinder to Cornel West’s recent commentary rings hollow. Read it here.

by Future U/ May 3, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

Case in point: Adrian College (MI). Read details at MLive.

by Future U/ August 31, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Read his trenchant analysis here. It’s from The New York Times.

by Future U/ January 11, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Why? Economists speak out in this article published recently in the Washington Post.

by Future U/ October 21, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Fort Lewis College (CO), like so many other lower-tier schools, is eliminating languages in exchange for offering students ‘marketable skills.’ …

by Future U/ February 12, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Read Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt’s take at Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ January 12, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Professor Joy Lisi Rankin tells why in Medium.

by Future U/ November 30, 2018/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

Inside Higher Education’s Colleen Flaherty offers numbers and commentary. Read more here.

by Future U/ November 27, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Penn State’s Eric Hayor thinks so. Read why in The Chronicle of High Education.

by Future U/ July 3, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/