humanities

“University Budgets Are Moral Documents”

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 24, 2024

A couple of historians muse on the university budgeting process and how no matter what the administrators do, the goal is to eviscerate the humanities, which is the reason university systems originally existed in the first place. They key here is this concept of "responsibility...

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Obama’s Attack on the Humanities

By Erik Loomis

On September 7, 2022

President Barack Obama tours the commercial rocket processing facility of Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, along with Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral,.

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The Humanities and Medicine in the Age of COVID

By Erik Loomis

On April 16, 2021

Molly Worthen is one of our top historians of religion and a frequent writer on the contemporary state of higher education. She has an excellent Times op-ed about how the.

Shorter STEM Experts: Please Invest in the Humanities!

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 25, 2016

It sure would be nice if politicians and university administrations actually listened to people in the STEM fields and invested heavily in the humanities and social sciences. The editorial board of Scientific American makes this point powerfully. Kentucky governor Matt Bevin wants students majoring in...

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Why Republicans Hate the Humanities (And Reading More Generally)

By Erik Loomis

On May 15, 2015

Why do Republicans hate the humanities and want to turn institutions of higher education into nothing more than training schools for employers? The story of Ivy Ziedrich, now famous for.

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The End of the Humanities Seminar

By Erik Loomis

On April 11, 2015

Above: A dying form of higher education Caught a bit about the new president at Victoria University at the University of Toronto (although I'm not sure quite what this means..

An iterative algorithm is implemented to make this say what we all know to be true.

By SEK

In General

On February 13, 2012

According to the always reliable John J. Miller, "[a] study says that black students take easier courses than white students at Duke University." He offers the following as his pull-quote: Although black and white students enter college with similar academic interests, 68 percent of black students...