Tag: Humanities Crisis
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“Minorities at Baruch College Charge Neglect of Ethnicity”
Protests from students lead to a delay in Baruch’s reaccreditation. This article deals with both teacher diversity and curricular diversity, with students advocating in favor of both issues. The curricular issues center around humanities courses. Read more.
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“Cuts at Hunter”
This letter to the editor argues against retrenchment and the firing of English faculty, who mainly teach introductory level and remedial English. This is framed as another issue of educational access for first-generation New Yorkers. Read more.
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“Don’t Shut Welfare Recipients Out of College”
Op Ed by Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy. The Chancellor in this piece argues against the loss of state assistance for people who enroll in bachelor’s degree programs. He discusses liberal education as both a right who should be available to all, and as necessary training for employment. The piece also includes a large visual element…
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“CUNY Chancellor Blasts Administration Policies”
Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy decries cuts to CUNY’s funding. The most interesting thing about this article is that the story wasn’t reported in the New York City papers. During a trip to Washington D.C., the Chancellor blasts the Reagan administration’s “strangulation” of graduate funding for studies in the humanities and social sciences, saying that working…
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Ad: “Scholars Against the Escalating Danger of the Far Right”
This ad, placed days before Regan’s second presidential election, is included because of the presence of CUNY professors that have signed on, which account for about half of the list of “initiators.” They decry the fact that funding for the humanities and social sciences had been “cut to the bone” in the first four years…
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“An Experiment in Reschooling the Scholar”
This article is one of many concerning retraining teachers to better serve the current needs of students in a changing job market. For example, the article discusses the potential for retraining humanists in fields like computer science. It describes the English major as an “endangered species.” Read more.
