Minasuk/ October 12, 2015/ Uncategorized

Humanities Majors’ Salaries | Inside Higher Ed | October 2015 Graduates with degrees in the humanities earn much more than the average for all American workers (a group that includes many without college degrees), challenging those who suggest that a degree in the humanities is a waste, at least financially. And the studies provide context both on why humanities majors

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Minasuk/ September 18, 2015/ Uncategorized

Japan’s Education Ministry Says to Axe Social Science and Humanities | August 2015 A June 8 letter from Hakubun Shimomura, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, to all of Japan’s 86 national universities and all of the nation’s higher education organizations asks them to take “active steps to abolish [social science and humanities] organizations or to convert

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Minasuk/ August 21, 2015/ Uncategorized

STEM Study Starts With Liberal Arts | Forbes | August 2015 “Parents sometimes worry that the liberal arts may not prepare their children for the job market, but they do so based upon a misunderstanding. When I applied to Amherst 40 years ago, someone told me that a liberal arts education was “training for nothing but preparation for everything.” It

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Minasuk/ May 19, 2015/ Uncategorized

How Austerity Killed the Humanities | In These Times | May 2015 Many Americans no longer think the humanities worthy of public support… . Such anti-intellectualism, a strong animus against the idea that learning about humanity is a worthy pursuit regardless of its lack of obvious labor market applicability, has deep roots in American history. 

Minasuk/ May 17, 2015/ Uncategorized

The Slow Death of the University | Chronicle of Higher Education | April 2015 Terry Eagleton:  Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame.