“the skills which organizations increasingly value the most today...it is critical, outside-the-box thinking, it is creativity, and it is the agility to adapt in a world of continuous change – and these are the skills of well-rounded liberal arts grads.” bit.ly/4jjoRfk

"To truly live, one must become involved in life by becoming involved in mankind. The #humanities teach us many ways that this can be done, ways in which we can realize the fullness of being through becoming part of the human fabric, enriching our lives through...new experiences." bit.ly/4piRxXe

"Despite persistent myths, employment rates for humanities graduates are comparable to those of STEM graduates, as Humanities Indicators data shows. Early earnings differ but the salary gap narrows significantly mid-career, particularly for graduates who pursue further study" bit.ly/49xYnDz

"A federal court in Manhattan chided the Trump administration on Thursday for trying to dodge discovery obligations in a collection of consolidated lawsuits over terminated grant awards issued by the National Endowment for the Humanities" bit.ly/45pQGgh

"Where humanistic angles were allowed in, science tended to improve not by becoming less rigorous, but by becoming more self-aware: clearer about its concepts, its subjects, its incentives and its downstream effects." bit.ly/3MZ3V18

"Clark University, the University of Arizona and Georgia Tech have all recently restructured departments and revamped their liberal arts programs, emphasizing applied humanities that weave career preparation directly into the curriculum." bit.ly/3Ya8mIT

India: “Most bright boys and girls are pursuing only science and technical courses at the higher education... having very little interest in languages, philosophy, fine arts, and social science subjects. This is very unfortunate and against the interest of national development.” bit.ly/3MN7Azb

"As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless." bit.ly/4s82duD

"Ultimately, the STEM vs humanities debate is probably more of a reflection on student identity than it is on degree ‘difficulty’." bit.ly/4akQFxD

We are seeking high school counselors and teachers currently teaching humanities subjects in grades 9-12 for a 1 ½ hour online focus group in January--exploring how students make their way into humanities majors. Use this link to take a short eligibility survey by January 5, 2026: bit.ly/4s9KO4Q

"all of us have access to the same powers to connect with others through creative expression... ours can be through cooking meals, knitting, singing—whatever is authentic and personal" bit.ly/4qaWtOQ

"Nothing is more powerful than a person with passion and drive who recognises pressing problems and acts to solve them. If this is what you imagine for your child, a humanities degree is an excellent choice." bit.ly/3MGSrzm

“The attempt here is to really to learn from an outside perspective what people outside the humanities want from the humanities, or how they use the humanities, and to talk to colleagues in the humanities who are trying to build bridges.” bit.ly/3MIBEMe

In history, majors fell by 56% from 1971 to 1980, but I found only one small item in the AHA annual reports noting that fact, in a statement about "increasing the attractiveness of undergraduate study in history" in 1973: bit.ly/3MG71qO

"Cross-disciplinary collaboration.... Instead of undermining the specialisation of our staff, this approach encourages them to branch out and explore other subjects in arts and humanities, and beyond." bit.ly/3KDuY1r

"the humanities are not irrelevant to law, but foundational. As the legal field evolves to address complex social, environmental and technological challenges, the interpretive and ethical capacities developed through the humanities will only become more vital" bit.ly/4oVUNru

NEH Invites Applications to Build Endowments for Research and Teaching of Western Civilization, American History and Government, and Civics: bit.ly/49ca7eW

"many of today’s technological careers could become obsolete in a few years, while the skills of the arts and humanities are durable and adaptable." bit.ly/4peub5n

Looking back at the Academy: "the Humanities Indicators project released the results from a major national survey of humanities departments and a study on student pathways in the humanities, generating extensive media and scholarly attention." bit.ly/3XVePr6

“Nine in ten employers say it is important for graduates to have developed AI-related skills while in college” bit.ly/48MMDvy

"If my suspicion is correct, AI literacy—the judgment to determine when and how to use AI tools effectively—may be the critical skill graduates will need to succeed in the emerging labor market." bit.ly/4aM1VmJ

"As part of the comprehensive effort, Brandeis is undergoing a broad reorganization, merging its liberal arts departments with graduate schools, creating a Center for Careers and Applied Liberal Arts, and building more direct pathways from coursework to jobs." bit.ly/3KGaAwE

We are thinking about doing a survey of the public about how often they use AI to perform various humanistic activities (writing, "reading," etc.) juxtaposed with some STEM activities (math, programming). I welcome thoughts and suggestions on anything that might be missing below:

We are thinking about doing a survey of the public about how often they use AI to perform various humanistic activities (writing, "reading," etc.) juxtaposed with some STEM activities (math, programming). I welcome thoughts and suggestions on anything that might be missing below:

The education data we rely on is now hanging by a thread: "NCES faces uniquely severe structural problems. The agency has the weakest statistical integrity safeguards among federal statistical agencies, with no statutory protections" bit.ly/48CftOY

"why is STEM research given essentially a free pass, while the social sciences, arts and humanities are singled out for extra scrutiny?" bit.ly/44Gjtgz

"the proposal would “devastate higher education by placing scholarly inquiry — especially in the humanities, social sciences, and other non-STEM fields — under direct political control, ideological litmus tests, and a narrow obsession with ‘Western civilization’ and ‘Americanism.’” bit.ly/4iPn4yy

"The flexible curriculum lets them combine subjects in unexpected ways to create educational paths that reflect their full range of interests." bit.ly/4iH8k4A

"It's not that we don't believe that the humanities and the social sciences are important; we think it's essential...We just need to find a way to offer it so that we have well-rounded students, but maybe not an advanced curriculum that would be associated with a major." bit.ly/4iJKBAJ

"the liberal arts and humanities are applied skills. Miami Regionals is full of active scholars and artists whose research and creative scholarship benefit our students in the classroom, laboratory, studio and beyond." bit.ly/4pTdPzy

Interesting model for a careers workshop for humanities students: bit.ly/4ayO1UU

"Embracing the term citizen humanities can make it easier for citizen humanists to find each other and for all kinds of humanities projects to collaborate." bit.ly/4pQK4iQ

"As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly more capable, distinctively human intelligence is going to become increasingly more valuable.... Frankly, I think simply studying AI is unlikely to prepare one for the future of work." bit.ly/3MkqLQH

“Harvard’s deep cuts to Ph.D. admissions are on track to leave undergraduate courses short of teaching fellows within two years, a looming squeeze already pushing departments to prepare contingency plans.” bit.ly/4pW7Gmt

"Students shouldn’t have to choose between financial stability and authenticity. The real solution isn’t shaming their dreams, it’s creating an economy where following them is actually possible." bit.ly/4pTqHpy

"nearly half of all job skills will change within five years. Amid such upheaval, societies must grapple with a foundational question: Are we educating only for employment, or are we educating for the future of humanity?" bit.ly/4pfuBJf

"The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so. And Wall Street seems to be noticing." bit.ly/4456tAF

"If we want graduates who can withstand disinformation, polarisation and the pressures of AI-driven work... Arts and humanities education does that ... through sustained human practices: making, observing, storytelling, questioning, listening." bit.ly/48khb7K

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

"exemplars of public value offer an effective way of making the case for arts and humanities fields. By this, I mean a public staging of arts and humanities-based research to express its tangible value." bit.ly/4rcg2Yn

“Amid concerns over funding … organizations across the country have decided they would rather find money elsewhere than be subject to federal restrictions.” bit.ly/3K5MoU3

"The difference between these two responses is what the humanities is all about: looking past the immediate problem, getting to the root of it and imagining new ways forward." bit.ly/3LLV9mN

“The departments of English, classics, philosophy, world languages and Spanish and Latino studies, for example, will be grouped into the tentatively titled School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions.” nyti.ms/4rhSXDR

"(NEH) grant funds appear to have been put towards supporting two awards at nearly 10 percent of the agency’s annual $207 million budget" bit.ly/48asUWt

“As humanists, we have to make a case for how what we do has a value for them as they think about their lives. The study of the texts of the past, of art, of music will help us move through this remarkable impasse that we are in around our culture” bit.ly/4pjl5Ev

"six months after the Trump administration canceled virtually all grants approved during the Biden administration, the nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

“AI will replace probably the most practical jobs, but [that is] all the more reason we need humanists who are able to preserve creativity, who are able to preserve the sense of what makes us human” bit.ly/447Rm9u

"Although Nadel had support and resources from the classics department, he had to learn a different skillset to accommodate the new structure and workload of #humanities courses. '[There was] a big learning curve…The biggest thing to adjust to was going from problem sets to readings'" bit.ly/49qtbqm

"The PhD students have been awarded scholarships as part of the Foundation’s long-standing commitment to support research in the humanities, recognising its role in enriching many aspects of UK society and its cultural life." bit.ly/47V3MCO

"Curricula that incorporate digital literacy, applied data methods and field-based research into liberal arts training will also be necessary to revitalise the #humanities and ensure that employability and intellectual breadth are compatible." bit.ly/4nW7xOj