Arts and Letters

2019

• New Data Track Graduates of Six Popular Majors Through Their First Three Jobs (IHE 8/2/19)
• Cuts Leave Concerns for Liberal Arts at Tulsa (IHE 6/6/19)
• LSU Ends Elsevier Bundled Journal Subscription (IHE 5/24/19)
• What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account (CHE 5/10/19)
• Far-right Government in Brazil Slashes University Funding, Threatens Cuts to Philosophy and Sociology (IHE 5/6/19)
• Stanford Moves to Stop Supporting Its University Press (IHE 4/29/19)
• Stevens Point Abandons Controversial Plan to Cut Liberal Arts Majors Including History and Foreign Languages (IHE 4/11/19)
• Stanford University Press—And All It Stands For—Is In Peril. (Save SUP 4/19)
• Trump Proposes Axing NEA, NEH (IHE 3/19/19)
• The 2019 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers (IHE 1/23/19)
• Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years (CHE 1/22/19)

2018

• Lies About the Humanities — and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (CHE 12/7/18)
• More Faculty Unrest at U Wisconsin Stevens Point (IHE 11/30/18)
• Orban’s Government vs. The Social Sciences (Public Semiar 11/5/18)
• A Cautionary Library Tale From UC-Santa Cruz (UCLAFA 10/22/18)
• Critics of the Liberal Arts aren’t Thinking Critically (Academe Blog 8/22/18)
• Goucher College Says It's Eliminating Liberal Arts Programs Such as Math, Physics and Religion, in Attempt to Keep Costs Down (IHE 8/17/18)
• U of Akron Cuts 80 Degree Tracks (IHE 8/16/18)
• Hungary Seeks to Ban Gender Studies (Academe Blog 8/11/18)
• Mea Culpa: There *is* a Crisis in the Humanities (Sapping Attention 7/27/18)
• 'Forbes,' Attacked by Librarians, Yanks Essay (IHE 7/24/18)
• Mayim Bialik Declines to Speak at Commencement, Cites Support of AFSCME (Daily Bruin 5/31/18)
• The Sky Is Falling (Profession 5/21/18)
• The Importance of Counting an Institution's Research Expenditures in the Humanities (IHE 4/23/18)
• University of Montana Creative Writing Program at Tipping Point as Budget Cuts Loom (Missoulian 4/22/18)
• The World’s Changing Fast. Here’s How Higher Ed Can Keep Up. (Daily Beast 3/31/18)
• A University of Wisconsin Campus Pushes Plan to Drop 13 Majors — Including English, History and Philosophy (Wa Po 3/21/18)
• Laboratories of Austerity (Academe Blog 3/19/18)
• Geoffrey Galt Harpham on Democracy and Interpretation in the United States (LARB 3/15/18)
• Ghosting the Region II: Rural Students Deserve Better (Academe Blog 3/13/18)
• Faculty Members at Wisconsin Stevens Point React to Plan to Cut 13 Majors (IHE 3/13/18)
• U. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Proposes Cutting 13 Programs, Mostly in Liberal Arts (CHE 3/5/18)
• Why Americans are Such Easy Targets for Trolls and Bots (Salon 3/3/18)
• Whatever Happened to the Polytechnics? Part 2 (Andrew McGettigan 2/28/18)
• Whatever Happened to the Polytechnics? Part 1 (Andrew McGettigan 2/27/18)
• Study Finds Humanities Majors Land Jobs and Are Happy in Them (IHE 2/7/18)

2017

• The Uncounted: Jobs and Graduates (Andrew Goldstone 11/25/17)
• Full-time Jobs in English and Languages Reach New Low, MLA Report Finds (IHE 11/21/17)
• About that AHA Jobs Chart (The Junto 11/20/17)
• Stony Brook Professors Worry Budget is Being Balanced on Backs of Junior Faculty, Humanities Programs (IHE 9/21/17)
• When Stories Collide (IHE 6/7/17)
• NEH Chairman Steps Down as White House Renews Call for Eliminating Agency (IHE 5/23/17)
• Proposed Cuts to Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook (IHE 5/9/17)
• Killing a Program That Brings History to Life (NYT 3/9/17)
• From the Humanities to Humanism in an Era of Higher Education Reform? (Process History 2/28/17)
• Liberal Arts Students' Fears About the Job Market Upon Graduation are Increasingly Informing What They Choose to Study, Even as Electives (IHE 2/21/17)
• 'The Great Shame of Our Profession' (CHE 2/12/17)
• How the Arts Helped Kill Off the NEA — By Trying to Play the Conservative “Economic Value” Game (Salon 1/28/17)
• Think NEH Funding is Only a Federal Issue? Think Again. (Academe Blog 1/27/17)
• Study Finds Variation in Costs by Different Majors (IHE 1/9/17)
• Research Documents Life Impact of Attending a Liberal Arts College (IHE 1/9/17)

2016

• New Analysis Shows High Debt Levels For Some Humanities Ph.D.s and No Debt For Others (IHE 11/28/16)
• Use Data to Make a Strong Case for the Humanities (CHE 11/27/16)
• Are PhD Students Irrational? (LARB 8/24/16)
• Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech (Kevin Birmingham 10/19/16)
• Behind the Plummeting Rankings and Defections of Faculty and MFA Students at USC's Roski Art School (LAT 6/27/16)
• Questions Raised About Cuts in Liberal Arts Programs at Western Illinois (IHE 6/14/16)
• New Study Documents Long-Term Losses of New Humanities Faculty Jobs (IHE 6/6/16)
• The Value of the Humanities (The Baseline Scenario 6/1/16)
• Land-Grant Universities Can Reinvigorate Philosophy's Focus on Societal Challenges (IHE 5/12/16)
• Beyond Resistance: Towards a Future History of Digital Humanities (LARB 5/11/16)
• Unfunded Mandate: Columbia College, Arts and Sciences, and the Bollinger Era (Columbia Spectator 5/5/16)
• Digital Humanities in Other Contexts (Roopika Risam 5/3/16)
• ‘Punch with Care’ (Academe Blog 5/2/16)
• Scholars who Study Hinduism and India Face Hostile Climate (IHE 4/12/16)
• Study Shows 8.7 Percent Decline in Humanities Bachelor's Degrees in 2 Years (IHE 3/14/16)
• Coming Down From the Clouds: On Academic Writing (CHE 3/6/16)
• College of Arts and Sciences gets Scrutiny as UO President Schill Continues Shakeup (Register-Guard 2/29/16)
• In Ohio, More Higher-Ed “Innovation” (Academe Blog 2/25/16)
• Purdue Increasing Graduate Student Stipends as it Cuts Graduate Enrollment (IHE 2/23/16)
• A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding (NYT 2/21/16)
• Kentucky's Governor vs. French Literature (IHE 2/1/16)
• Is University Research Missing What Matters Most? (CHE 1/24/16)
• The 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers (IHE 1/22/16)
• Study Traces Characteristics of Undergraduate Education to Key Measures of Success in Life (IHE 1/22/16)

2015

• How Misguided University Policies are Harming the Humanities, Arts and Sciences (IHE 12/18/15)
• With Writing, Study Finds, Quality of Assignment and Instruction -- Not Quantity -- Matters (IHE 12/4/15)
• How the Crisis of the Humanities Is Like the Greek Economy (CHE 11/15/15)
• Wartburg College and Other Liberal Arts Institutions Make Drastic Cuts, Challenging Their Identities as Liberal Institutions (IHE 10/29/15)
• NEH Seeks to Spur Humanities Ph.D. Training Beyond Traditional Career Paths (IHE 10/21/15)
• Enrollment in Humanities Ph.D. Programs Declines as More Graduate Schools Slim Down (CHE 9/17/15)
• The Virtues of Difficult Fiction (The Nation 7/30/15)
• How Academe Breeds Anxiety (CHE 7/13/15)
• Trapped in the Virtual Classroom (NY Review of Books 7/9/15)
• Right To Marriage Ruling Shows Impact of Humanities 'Basic Research' (IHE 6/29/15)
• University of Washington and Chinese University Unite to Form Technology Institute (NYT 6/18/15)
• Student Calls For Eradication Of Graphic Novels From English Course (io9 6/14/15)
• Why Social Sciences Are Just as Important as STEM Disciplines (WaPo 6/9/15)
• Colleges of Arts and Sciences Struggle with Deficits as Enrollment Declines (IHE 6/4/15)
• Stanford Political Science Department Overhauls Undergraduate Major (IHE 5/29/15)
• Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out (Art & Education 5/15/15)
• Essay Criticizes Studies that Claim to Show Shakespeare is Ignored by English Departments (IHE 5/4/15)
• House Committee Draws Criticism Again for Proposed Cuts to Social Sciences (IHE 4/23/15)
• Frederick Douglass, Defender of the Liberal Arts (Atlantic 4/7/15)
• The War Against Humanities at Britain's Universities (Guardian 3/29/15)
• New Projects, Laws help Prison College Programs Gain Steam (IHE 3/24/15)
• Liberal Arts Colleges Should Focus on how they Help Students Learn 'Constructive Thinking' (IHE 3/6/15)
• Shocking Decision at Sweet Briar (IHE 3/4/15)
• Taking It to the Streets: Preparing for an Academy in Exile (Liberal Education, Vol. 100, No. 4, Fall '14)
• Foreign-Language Enrollments Drop After Years of Increases (CHE 2/11/15)
• Where Have all the English Majors Gone? (IHE 1/26/15)
• Data Show Steady Growth in Humanities and Liberal Arts Education at Community Colleges (IHE 1/20/15)



2014

• ASU English by the Numbers: It Ain't Pretty (IHE 12/18/14)
• ASU and the Non-Tenured Human Shields (IHE 12/16/14)
• Arizona State Tells Non-Tenure-Track Writing Instructors to Teach an Extra Course Each Semester (IHE 12/16/14)
• Analysis Says Humanities Ph.D.s Get Take Longer in Coursework Than Dissertations (IHE 11/25/14)
• Hey, College Kids: Major in John Oliver and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Salon 11/15/14)
• NEH and their REDACTED Decision-Making (How Did We Get Into This Mess? 11/13/14)
• On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race (NYT 11/13/14)
• Career-Focused Majors Can Strengthen, Not Threaten, Liberal-Arts Colleges (CHE 11/11/14)
• How Not to Defend the Liberal Arts (IHE 10/27/14)
• Measuring Humanities Degrees Misses Much of Their Value (CHE 10/20/14)
• Positive Reports for Humanities Earnings, Art School Job Prospects (IHE 10/17/14)
• The Humanities Ph.D. is a Calling, Not Vocational Training (IHE 10/3/14)
• Patrícia Vieira on The Work of Art in the World : Civic Agency and Public Humanities and The Humanities and Public Life (LARB 9/17/14)
• Survey Finds Stability in Humanities Departments (IHE 9/8/14)
• New Study Assesses Humanities' Impact by Credits Earned, not Majors Declared (IHE 8/18/14)
• Ideas -- Revisited (Cloudminder 8/10/14)
• One Liberal Arts College Loses Money after its State Adopts a Performance Funding Model (IHE 8/7/14)
• Non-Decline of Liberal Arts Colleges (IHE 6/25/14)
• Essay Critiques the MLA Report on Graduate Education (IHE 6/24/14)
• Humanities Indicators Funding Report (Humanities Indicators 6/14)
• MLA’s Effort to Reshape Ph.D. Misses Mark, Some Say (CHE 6/4/14)
• House Passes NSF Funding Bill That Takes Slap at Social Sciences (IHE 6/2/14)
• MLA Report calls for Ph.D. Program Reform (IHE 5/28/14)
• New Book on STEM Workforce Needs and International Competitiveness Finds no Evidence of Crisis (IHE 5/23/14)
• The False Promise of 'Practical' Education (CHE 5/19/14)
• Don't Evaluate Scholarly Research on Public Impact Alone (IHE 5/15/14)
• Capital Man (CHE 4/17/14)
• Economy, Politics and the “Crisis in the Humanities" (4 Humanities 3/22/14)
• New 'College' of the Humanities That's Not Just For the Rich (Guardian 3/17/14)
• Stop Defending the Humanities (Simon During 3/1/14)
• Why is Academic Writing So Academic? (New Yorker 2/21/14)
• Professor of Art History Receives Apology From Obama (IHE 2/19/14)
• Humanities Could be Replaced by '7 Habits' Self-Help (THE 2/17/14)
• Humanities or Self-Help? (IHE 2/11/14)
• Obama vs. Art History (IHE 1/31/14)
• Essay Calls for Humanities Graduate Programs to Resist Calls to Shrink (IHE 1/28/14)
• Liberal Arts Grads Win Long-Term (IHE 1/22/14)
• The Humanities Are an Existentialism (IHE 1/21/14)
• The Third Rail (IHE 1/13/14)
• Alas, Poor Shakespeare (Slate 1/7/14)



2013

• Report Paints Grim Picture of Arts, Culture Economy (Pacific Standard 12/5/13)
• The Higher Ed STEM Myth (Changing Universities 12/2/13)
• The Real Humanities Crisis (NYT 11/30/13)
• Welcome to the 20-Year Dissertation (CHE 11/25/13)
• A Time for Radical Hope: Freedom, Responsibility, Publishing, and Building New Publics (In The Middle 11/19/13)
• Mellon Puts Humanities in Close Touch With Urban Studies (CHE 11/11/13)
• The STEM Crisis: Reality or Myth? (CHE 11/11/13)
• ‘Life Support’ for the Liberal Arts? Here’s Why Not (The Hechinger Report 11/8/13)
• The Fate of the Humanities (NYT 11/5/13)
• Anderson U. Ends French, Theater, Philosophy Majors (IHE 11/5/13)
• Why the Humanities? (Sarah Waurechen 11/4/13)
• Humanities Jobs Decline (IHE 10/30/13)
• The £54,000 Degree: How Well is AC Grayling's University Doing? (The Guardian 10/25/13)
• Senator Demands Explanations From Humanities Endowment (CHE 10/24/13)
• The Liberal Arts Confront Fiscal Reality at Edinboro U. (CHE 10/14/13)
• The (Forgotten) Utility of the Humanities (IHE 10/10/13)
• ARCADE: Literature, the Humanities, and the World (Occasion 10/1/13)
• President Yudof Commits $100K to Boost UC Humanities (Link 9/24/13)
• More Humanities Ph.D.s (IHE 9/12/13)
• The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities (New Republic 8/20/13)
• Humanities! Science is Not Your Enemy, It’s a Friend Who Owes You Money (Crooked Timber 8/14/13)
• House Appropriations Panel Delays Action on NEH Funding (National Coalition for History 8/5/13)
• The Stakes for All of Us (IHE 7/23/13)
• Humanities Scholars See Declining Prestige, Not a Lack of Interest (CHE 7/15/13)
• Humanities Graduates Play Big Role in British Economy, Study Finds (CHE 7/11/13)
• Why the Humanities? (DailyCal 7/7/13)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences Defend Humanities and Social Sciences (IHE 6/19/13)
• Is There Really a Crisis of the Humanities? (Sapping Attention 6/7/13)
• The Job Crisis in Science (IHE 2/19/13)
• Harvard Thinks About the Humanities (2013)



2011

• Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities (Social Science Space blog 6/20/11) 
• Threats to the Liberal Arts Worry Scholars in the Humanities (CHE 5/8/11)
• ASU Provost on Importance of Humanities (ArizRepub 2/5/11)
• In Defense of Electives (Edelstein, IHE 1/21/11)
• Hard Times Focus MLA's Lens on Labor and the Humanities (CHE 1/9/11)
• History Jobs in Freefall, Econ Bounces Back (IHE 1/3/11)



2010

• The Death of Universities (Eagleton, Guardian 12/18/10)
• Languages Losing Out in Budget Cutting (NYT 12/5/10)
• Humanities and the Good Life (Soper, Guardian 11/30/10)
• SUNY's Faustian Bargain (Petsko 11/10/10)
• How the Humanities (Pears 11/10/10)
• Why Humanities: Birkbeck Conference (Backdoor Broadcasting 11/5/10)
• Cornell President Calls for National Campaign in Defense of the Humanities (IHE 11/1/10)
• SUNY Under Seige Website (10/10) 
• End Game for UK Humanities (McQuillan, London Grad School 10/10)
• Do Colleges Need French Departments? (Debate, NYT 10/18/10)
• SUNY. Albany Eliminating Several Language Programs (IHE 10/4/10)
• Story of Humanities Decline Overstated (IHE 10/1/10)
• In UK Humanities Degrees Increasingly the Preserve of the Wealthy (Guardian 9/26/10)
• "The End of Tenure?" (NYT 9/3/10)
• The Declining Rate of Educational Achievement (Herbert, NYT 8/6/10)
• Education for Workers about More than the Economic (IHE 8/6/10)
• Toronto East Asian Studies Faculty on Literature Reorganization (U of Toronto 7/20/10)
• When Drug Companies Write Articles For Professors (CHE 7/19/10)
• Arizona State President Tries to Redesign the University (IHE 7/16/10)
• U Toronto Plans to Shut Center for Comparative Literature (Globe and Mail 7/13/10)
• Study Aborad Improves Educational Outcomes, Including Those of At-Risk Students (IHE 7/13/10)
• More on the Consolidation of the Humanities at Toronto (Torontoist 7/9/10)
• Middlesex Philosophy Center Survives by Moving to Kingston U (Guardian 6/10/10)
• Stop Mourning the Humanities (CHE 6/1/1/10)
• Tennessee Bob Fights Language Dept Closures Around US (CHE 5/23/10)
• The Unintended Impact of the Humanities (CHE 5/23/10)
• Middlesex U (UK) Suspends Profs and Students for Protesting Closure of Philosophy Dept (Save MDX Phil 5/21/10)
• Middlesex U (UK) Occupation to Save Philosophy Ended by Judge (Save MDX Phil 5/14/10)
• This Story Concerns You: Reflections on Middlesex (Unemployed Negativity 5/5/10)
• UK Universities Move to Close Philosophy Departments Because They Aren't Profitable Enough (UniversitiesInCrisis 5/4/10)
• Brown Considers Changing Tenure Process; Giving Administrators More Say (IHE 4/27/10)
• Southern Cal Social Work Goes Online (IHE 4/22/10)
• A Passion for Truth (Nussbaum, TNR 4/1/10)
• A "Third Way" For Liberal Education? (IHE 3/30/10)
• The Humanities More Than Pay for Themselves (CHE 3/21/10)
• Novelist Iain Pears: King's College Guts Humanities to Grow Admin (Iain Pears 3/4/10)
• Are Universities Killing Interpretation? (IHE 2/12/10)
• Protests on LGBT and Labor Issues at AHA (IHE 1/11/10)
• Historians Face Future but what about Jobs? (IHE 1/11/10)
• "Dodging the Anvil": The Future of the Job Market (CHE 1/4/10)
• New PhDs Sit Out MLA Convention (IHE 1/4/10)
• Academic Jobs: History Down 24%, Econ Minus 19% (IHE 1/4/10)
• The Humanities: Beyond The Critical (CHE 1/3/10)



2009

• Carnegie Mellon Project on Digital-Hybrid Education: Whither the Professor? (IHE 12/28/09)
• The Absent Presence: Today's Faculty (Brian Croxall, MLA Paper 12/28/09)
• Literature Jobs Fall 50% Over 2 Years (IHE 12/17/09)
• Public Spectres (Shannon Jackson, UCB 12/13/09)
• Hum Grad School: Just Don't Go (CHE 1/30/09)