Disciplines

Disciplines

Mar 04, 2020
The Modern Language Association planned separate panels for scholars of color and their white colleagues.

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March 4, 2020
The Modern Language Association planned separate panels for scholars of color and their white colleagues.
February 25, 2020
Faculty at Long Island University have raised concerns about a decision to freeze new enrollments in a number of liberal arts programs.
July 12, 2018
Medieval studies groups say a major conference is trying to limit the number of diverse voices and topics. The debate is part of a bigger fight over whether medieval studies should remain a fundamentally European field.
January 6, 2017
As we in the humanities defend ourselves, we should not engage in the corollary of denouncing the sciences as unimportant.
November 7, 2016
Mike Rose explores the myriad status games in higher ed.
July 28, 2016
Lincoln University’s decision to suspend its history major ignores W. E. B. Du Bois’s belief in the power of history to shape lives in the present and his vision of the university as a center to help reconstruct the world, argues J. Mark Leslie.
September 22, 2014
Most of the opposition to the U. of Illinois decision to block the hiring of Steven Salaita has come from the humanities, and most of the university's defenders are campus scientists. Why?
May 21, 2014
How we communicate about disease can have consequences for prevention and treatment. Scott McLemee consults a new book on a recent epidemic.
February 26, 2014
New book, In Defense of Disciplines, questions the rush to interdisciplinary work, and argues that the trend has eroded intellectual life and faculty power.
May 24, 2013
Stanford pledges to pay for a master's in education for humanities Ph.D.s who want to become high school teachers.

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