By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Humanities Greatest Advances?
I walked through the campus at Harvard a couple of months ago and marveled at what I thought would be a wonderful place to learn. But I cannot think of a more scathing indictment of what is often touted as one of the great universities of the world as this statement: "I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world - the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair... I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country". More...
Les universités américaines championnes en arts et humanités
Stanford et le MIT, prestigieux établissements américains surtout connus pour leur excellence dans les matières scientifiques, brillent aussi en arts et en humanités, à en croire le dernier classement du Times Higher Education. Plus...
Japon : jugées inutiles, 26 universités de sciences humaines et sociales vont fermer
Le ministre de l’Éducation a demandé la fermeture des départements des universités en sciences humaines et sociales dans un souci d’efficacité économique. Une demande suivie par un tiers d’entre elles. Plus...
Les étudiants français préfèrent les lettres aux sciences dures
Plus d’un tiers des étudiants inscrits en licence le sont en arts, en lettres, en sciences humaines ou en langues. À l’inverse, ils ne sont que 14% à être inscrits en économie, et à peu près autant en droit. Plus...
Les entreprises ouvrent lentement leurs portes aux littéraires
Les diplômés de lettres modernes, histoire, philosophie et autres sciences sociales sont dotés de capacités de synthèse et d’analyse qui séduisent les DRH. Plus...
Columbia's Core Curriculum Gets an Update
By Colleen Flaherty. Columbia University is adding a rotating contemporary core element to the literature humanities course in its larger undergraduate core curriculum. More...
From the Mouths of Editors
By Colleen Flaherty. New study from international publishing ethics group finds that arts, humanities and social science journal editors worry most about plagiarism and inclusion. More...
Centering the Humanities
Humanities centers and institutes are key to improving the image of the humanities among the public and policy makers, writes Aaron R. Hanlon. More...
Integrating the Applied and Practical Arts
By Steven Mintz. Traditionally, a liberal arts education was regarded as the inverse of professional, technical, or vocational training. But the liberal arts can, of course, be practical, applied, and experiential. More...
The Ramsay Centre and ‘Western Civilisation’: An attempt at historical perspective (AUR 61 02)
Martin Davies’ paper seeks to vindicate the efforts of the Ramsay Centre to fund courses in ‘Western Civilisation’ at selected Australian universities. He begins by lamenting the rejection of vast amounts of philanthropic money for the humanities, and all too quickly dismisses the stated grounds for the Australian National University’s decision to decline a deal with the Ramsay Centre: ‘The issue of academic autonomy has been raised as a reason, but this is, at best, ostensible’, Davies writes. He then goes on to defend the concept of courses in Western civilisation more generally. More...