Tag: New York Times
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“City U. Profiles Its ’81 Graduates a Year Later”
This piece suggests that the University is doing well at meeting its goals in terms of serving unrepresented students who normally would not have access to a college education. It also reflects a growing concern for the financial state of humanities graduates. Read more.
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“City U. Graduate School Gains High Rank”
A celebratory piece on the Graduate Center’s programs in the humanities ranking nationally for the first time. The content of the article reflects the blow to reputation that CUNY faced in the 70s, after its rocky implementation of Open Admissions and the broader fiscal crisis in NYC. It suggests that the GC wasn’t able to…
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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.
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“The Market for Ph.D.’s”
A female philosophy professor from the Graduate Center rebuts a claim in a previous letter that all unemployed philosophers are male. I include this brief and eloquent reply to illustrate how the dialogues around the humanities Ph.D. are changing just over two decades later; while the university was scrambling to increase capacity to provide Ph.D.’s…
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“Why Must English-as-a-Second-Language Be ‘Remedial’?”
An article from the president of CCNY objecting to the classification of ESL as “remedial” work. This piece also defends the strength of CCNY’s continued programs in the arts and humanities, rejecting the notion that ESL has somehow replaced the core curriculum. This is one of the only City College-centric pieces of news media during…
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“City U. Considering a Plan That Would Limit Tenure: Enrollment Decline Foreseen”
This article discusses the shift away from liberal arts education and towards professional training at the City University. This is also the result of an anticipated decline in enrollment; it stands as an example of the humanities being seen as less conducive to employment. Read more.
