"Climate change is often viewed as a scientific challenge. But finding lasting solutions also requires understanding the histories, cultures and communities that shape our relationship with the planet." bit.ly/3Rx6lXL

Concordia to lead $2.5M national partnership advancing climate solutions through the environmental humanities | News - Concordia University

Led by Jill Didur, a seven-year SSHRC Partnership Grant will unite researchers, museums, conservation organizations and communities to rethink sustainability.

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"disciplines such as STEM...heighten the competition among researchers to be the first to make such discoveries, whereas the #humanities, social sciences and other non-STEM disciplines provide scholars with diverse pathways for achieving recognition" bit.ly/4gbmefJ

An interesting case study of the problems political interference can bring to cultural institutions: bit.ly/3RRkW0a

The National Symphony Is In Real Danger Thanks to Trump · City Cast DC

No more concerts on the calendar. No more home at the Kennedy Center. Even Washingtonians who don't like classical should worry.

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"We should all be concerned about any reduction in the flow of humanities graduates because, in the era of AI, we will likely increasingly value an understanding of how humans think and act, not the other way around" bit.ly/4wDHuR2

English Campus Cuts Staff, the Fate of Humanities is Debated in the Era of AI

Plans to cut jobs at the University of Exeter, England, have opened a wider debate about the future of humanities education. The issue comes as campuses face cost pressures, demands for graduates read...

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"In our view, the most pressing challenge facing the #humanities in higher education is insufficient support, both for traditional fields and for those historically overlooked and underfunded." bit.ly/4bZEUfX

With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)

Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.

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"The skills nurtured in the #humanities are not an optional extra. They are critical for us to remain ourselves. They are also, of course, where we learn to communicate, a skill we hand over to AI word salad at our peril." bit.ly/4pOmzYU

We sacrifice the humanities at our peril

Another month, another of our great universities making brutal cuts. At Exeter (motto: lucem sequimur, ‘we follow the light’) over 500 members of staff have been notified their jobs are at risk in a p...

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"Too often the arts and humanities are treated as amenities that can be supported only when resources are abundant. That view overlooks their role in workforce development, entrepreneurship, tourism, innovation and community vitality." bit.ly/3TxQvwy

How arts and humanities drive Michigan's economy | Michigan State University

Thomas Stubblefield, dean of MSU's College of Arts and Letters, explains how arts and humanities strengthen Michigan's economy, workforce, communities and future.

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Senate confirms Michael McDonald as NEH chair: bit.ly/4w567Ft

"Judging disciplines in faculties like humanities and human sciences solely based on their immediate market value risks undermining their broader societal contribution, with consequences that could affect millions of lives." bit.ly/4xbNyQH

Our universities need a broader curricular vision before any restructuring

It was interesting to follow recent discussions surrounding the proposed or likely developments in merging some departments at Dhaka University as well as making traditional humanities departments lik...

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"If humanities scholar-teachers gave up on research, we would forgo a prime opportunity to promote the virtues academics are best positioned to model for students: curiosity, persistence, devotion to the truth, and humility in the face of everything we do not know." bit.ly/4bh4PQ3

Opinion | The False Choice That Could Kill the Humanities

The tension between teaching and scholarship is not as acute as critics pretend.

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"When #history is made an explicit organizational resource, it becomes not only a tool for shaping identity and legitimacy but also a means of actively constructing the past, shaping how organizations act, justifying their decisions, and influencing how they are understood by others." bit.ly/4fIcKY2

"To illustrate the broad career opportunities available to graduates in these disciplines, Read pointed to the versatility of an English degree and the wide range of professions pursued by its graduates." bit.ly/3Rxh9oI

Board of Trustees hears how non-STEM research improves technology, well-being | Penn State University

Senior Vice President for Research Andrew Read gave an overview of Penn State's non-STEM research and the critical contributions that scholarship makes to society in a presentation to the Board of Tru...

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"Autor is unequivocal when he says “Yes, AI will increase the value of #humanities skills”. However, he caveats that “those skills must be paired with substantive knowledge in a specific domain”." bit.ly/3RXWzxN

The unexpected winner of the AI boom? Your arts degree

AI may increase the value of humanities skills, but that does not mean every arts degree will become a golden ticket for employability.

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The #humanities are vital for distinctly human skills, including judgement, proportion, and the ability to approach problems that have no empirical answer. There is no future in which these skills are not vital. bit.ly/3RV4UCs

We sacrifice the humanities at our peril

Another month, another of our great universities making brutal cuts. At Exeter (motto: lucem sequimur, ‘we follow the light’) over 500 members of staff have been notified their jobs are at risk in a p...

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"Students today are being brought into a world where Al can generate thoughts, arguments, and analyses for them, while concepts like creativity, innovation, and collaboration are being downgraded in favor of convenience and accessibility." bit.ly/4bdiBmI

Revive the Humanities - Memphis Flyer

A high-schooler’s perspective: Cultivating critical thinking in the age of AI.

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"The Trump administration wants to control the Smithsonian, but it won’t be so easy." bit.ly/4vvM8iV

How the Smithsonian Could Fall

A president cracking down on museums is unusual—but so are the museums.

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“We should be collectively concerned about a reduction in the pipeline of #humanities graduates and the cold spots in knowledge it creates. In an age of AI, we’ll value the understanding of how humans think and act more, not less, in the future.” bit.ly/4fiVLeK

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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"Hyosung Group has launched a recruitment program exclusively for humanities majors...“More than 80 percent of the company's sales come from overseas, and we hope to attract candidates with a global mindset, strong communication skills and a broad liberal arts education” bit.ly/44rj0ya

Hyosung bucks STEM trend with humanities-only hiring

Hyosung Group has launched a recruitment program exclusively for humanities majors, an unusual move in a job market where employers have increasingly favored gr

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"Skills developed by the humanities are vital for design, team dynamics, and considering the human perspective." bit.ly/4bGpHAa

Humanities Strike Back In The STEM Empire

Why humanities deserve further elevation in the world of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.

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"I wonder if the job of secondary school teaching was more respected in America, whether that would fix the “crisis” of the humanities here, because then you would have something to do that really matters afterwards." bit.ly/4piOQqf

Illiberal Arts, by Maya Perry, Ann Manov

Ann Manov on conservative educational reform, teaching in France, and the loss of rigor

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Interesting model: "Public Humanities Connectors initiative...offers faculty the opportunity to hone their research communication skills by co-creating humanities programming that prioritizes engagement with communities." bit.ly/4vKPTBf

"She had to explain—to students at America’s most elite university, taking a course in a discipline rooted in written observation, argumentation, and analysis—that excerpts and summaries cannot capture the depth and sophistication of a complete primary text." bit.ly/4f4pGqD

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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"These organizations contribute so much to the community and reach so many people, and the initiative aims to support their work through this collaboration as well as to draw on their expertise and insight about what is vital for sustaining the arts and humanities in public life." bit.ly/3QKu9qI

Princeton University Humanities Initiative collaborates with community partners to explore the past, present, and possible futures of America

Re-visioning America is a community-based, collaborative initiative featuring exhibitions, lectures, artist conversations and film screenings that grapple with the complexity of America and its histor...

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“We should really tell people what they're losing. The anti-AI sentiment is because people have become aware that they're losing something to the technology, and we have to tell them there is something in universities that is already there to help you with that.” bit.ly/3R892i6

Outgoing WashU scholar says support for humanities is vital for students in the AI age

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado says language departments and cultural studies programs equip students with skills beyond what artificial intelligence can offer.

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"much like medieval scribes intimidated by the invention of the printing press, there are some [historians] who insist that mechanical contrivances simply are not relevant to the task of teaching the humanities. This, I respectfully submit, begs the question." bit.ly/4pbSGRW

Overcoming Computerphobia in Office and Classroom – AHA

It doesn't take a lot of effort to develop a love-hate relationship with a desktop computer.

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India: "GATE has become much more than just an examination for students in #humanities; GATE has become symbolic of the realization that knowledge of society, language, culture, and human behavior carries equal weight in shaping the future." bit.ly/4eQGNO2

GATE is no longer just for engineers: How humanities students can enter IITs and pursue research careers

For years, the name GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) was almost automatically associated with engineering graduates preparing for technical careers. The exam was seen as a gateway mainly f...

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"For historical scholarship specifically, the consequences would be concrete: peer review displaced by political appointee approval, multiyear projects subject to termination without cause, and international collaborations constrained by an undefined compliance standard." bit.ly/4eTNkaQ

AHA Submits Comment Seeking to Prevent Politicization of Federal Grantmaking - AHA

The AHA submitted a comment to the Federal Register stating our opposition to a rule proposed by the Office of Management and Budget that would give political appointees final approval over all federa...

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"Americans are probably reading more words than ever before. What has changed is what they read, and how... they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate." bit.ly/4vnKEae

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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"While the administration insists that it wants Americans to engage more deeply with their history, it announced just 10 days ago that it is simultaneously moving to close National Archives facilities in San Bruno, California, and Chicago, Illinois." bit.ly/4vW0wBW

"It’s terribly ironic, for example, that with the rise of AI technologies, scholars across the disciplines are converging on research questions about the mysteries and complexities of language while humanities scholars converge on “AI is bad!”" bit.ly/4bs7Gpa

Opinion | Social Justice Was the Humanities’ Bid for Relevance. It Failed.

The problem isn’t politicization. The problem is that the old topics stopped mattering to the public.

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