Are the arts and humanities still needed as universities retrench staff and cut costs? Patty Raun explains why curtailing or ...

Shadi Bartsch It seems we’ve decided the humanities have less to give the human race — or more modestly, this country’s future — than the sciences. This is a serious mistake. The sciences and the ...

T he good news: There is no longer a crisis in the humanities. Our field’s long-running narrative of continuous crisis is ...

Oftentimes, you may hear family, friends or the internet praising science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors and ...

A growing number of college students across the country are shunning the liberal arts in favor of majors in business, engineering, health and science. Some might be chasing higher salaries, while ...

The University of Chicago’s Division of the Arts & Humanities is preparing for a significant reorganization to cut administrative costs, with proposed changes expected to be presented to Provost ...

Views expressed in opinion columns are the author’s own. It feels like I’ve had to explain why I chose my major more times than I’ve had to swipe into the dining hall. As a humanities student, I am ...

At Montclair State University in New Jersey, a departmental restructuring plan is igniting concerns about the future of the humanities. By Sharon Otterman It began, the professors said, last November, ...

I am often in awe at how some voices in the marketplace of ideas can insist that humanities departments need “defunded” while trade programs should have increased funding, due to the former being a ...

Ask senior executives whether trust is an important part of leadership and you’ll get emphatic agreement that it is. In my interviews with over 70 senior leaders across multiple sectors, every CEO I ...

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The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects. Just for decoration: In UChicago’s Mansueto Library, the bookstacks are all underground and unbrowsable. In August, the ...