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A closer look at the numbers reveals a more subtle story.
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A closer look at the numbers reveals a more subtle story.
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When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, we were all required to swim in gym class. This was before wokeness.
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When I was in high school in the mid-1990s, we were all required to swim in gym class. This was before wokeness.
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During the years I taught college English, I had a ringside seat watching a new breed of Jacobins seize control of a university English department, then extend their reach throughout the humanities.
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During the years I taught college English, I had a ringside seat watching a new breed of Jacobins seize control of a university English department, then extend their reach throughout the humanities.
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As a student in the 1980s, like many bookish young people of my era, I gravitated toward the English department because I had always loved to read.
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As a student in the 1980s, like many bookish young people of my era, I gravitated toward the English department because I had always loved to read.
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For ten years I served on the GRE Literature Exam committee.
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For ten years I served on the GRE Literature Exam committee.
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Rumors of the humanities’ decline have been greatly exaggerated, a new report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences says.
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Rumors of the humanities’ decline have been greatly exaggerated, a new report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences says.
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Because of the biased media coverage of Title IX, most Americans still believe that its expansion is about protecting women and minorities.
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Because of the biased media coverage of Title IX, most Americans still believe that its expansion is about protecting women and minorities.
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Attacks by academics and the media on the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors have become a major part of the state's political landscape in recent years.
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Attacks by academics and the media on the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors have become a major part of the state's political landscape in recent years.
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Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.”
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Samuel Moyn, a Yale law professor, recently asked, “What is ‘cultural Marxism?’” His answer: “Nothing of the kind actually exists.”
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In recent years, the media has given us dire warnings about the "crisis of the humanities." In article after article, one reads about falling enrollments in college English departments and funding cuts
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In recent years, the media has given us dire warnings about the "crisis of the humanities." In article after article, one reads about falling enrollments in college English departments and funding cuts
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Academia has a long history of ignoring original minds who push their fields forward
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Academia has a long history of ignoring original minds who push their fields forward
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Clearly, NC State is well regarded by its peers for its writing program. Pamela Flash, co-director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Writing and the director of their Writing-Enriched Curriculum program, called the work done at NC State "very formative"
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Clearly, NC State is well regarded by its peers for its writing program. Pamela Flash, co-director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Writing and the director of their Writing-Enriched Curriculum program, called the work done at NC State "very formative"
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A major in English was once a serious endeavor masquerading as a frivolous one
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A major in English was once a serious endeavor masquerading as a frivolous one
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Many English departments are now beginning to offer courses on graphic novels, which integrate text and visual imagery
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Many English departments are now beginning to offer courses on graphic novels, which integrate text and visual imagery
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More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
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More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
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Election season may not be the best time to go looking for sober reflection or respectful dialogue.
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Election season may not be the best time to go looking for sober reflection or respectful dialogue.
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In 2006, I clipped a "Non Sequitur" cartoon that captured perfectly the mystique that surrounds our nation's universities
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In 2006, I clipped a "Non Sequitur" cartoon that captured perfectly the mystique that surrounds our nation's universities
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English departments have lost their positions of importance on college campuses in recent years.
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English departments have lost their positions of importance on college campuses in recent years.
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Are the humanities in trouble on American campuses? That is certainly the impression one gets from the media today; articles in publications of both left and right describe the increasing flight from the humanities into other disciplines.
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Are the humanities in trouble on American campuses? That is certainly the impression one gets from the media today; articles in publications of both left and right describe the increasing flight from the humanities into other disciplines.
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I have had the advantage of having degrees in both biology and English. I know how each is taught, and the requirements of each.
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I have had the advantage of having degrees in both biology and English. I know how each is taught, and the requirements of each.
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
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Every two years, the General Assembly appropriates money to the schools in the UNC system to cover the cost of instruction - primarily professors' salaries and benefits. But the formula used to determine how much money the system requests is outdated, opaque, and creates the wrong incentives for...
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Every two years, the General Assembly appropriates money to the schools in the UNC system to cover the cost of instruction - primarily professors' salaries and benefits. But the formula used to determine how much money the system requests is outdated, opaque, and creates the wrong incentives for...
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There is no greater asset for a graduate than the ability to write and communicate.
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There is no greater asset for a graduate than the ability to write and communicate.