Alan Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara, an international team of humanists is fighting back against senseless, debilitating self-destructive educational cutbacks which specifically target the humanities. Called 4Humanities, this advocacy team is organizing itself into a powerful force mobilizing to inspire administrators, faculty, students, citizens, policy makers, and the media with the vitality, importance, and foundational power of the humanities in order to stop higher education from committing its own intellectual suicide. As I’ve written before, these kinds of cutbacks are not only reactive and reactionary, but they also shortchange our students and undermine our ability, as educators, to train students in all disciplines for a globally interconnected future.
Why, now, of all times, when every business school laments that the lack of training in other cultures and in context seriously undermines American international relations and business would you cut the humanities that specialize in the deep understanding of culture and context.
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Global Concerns, Local Politics | 4Humanities