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    A New Deal for the Humanities
    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    Gordon Hutner (Edited by), Feisal G. Mohamed (Edited by), Gordon Hutner (Contributions by), Feisal G. Mohamed (Contributions by), Roger L. Geiger (Contributions by), Sheldon Rothblatt (Contributions by), Kathleen Woodward (Contributions by), Yolanda Moses (Contributions by), Daniel Lee Kleinman (Contributions by), Charlotte Melin (Contributions by), Bethany Nowviskie (Contributions by), John McGowan (Contributions by), Jeffrey J. Williams (Contributions by), Christopher Newfield (Contributions by)

    9780813573236

    Paperback / softback, published 11 November 2015

    210 pages, 2 graphs, 7 tables
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.313 kg

    "Hutner and Mohamed offer ten essays about changing views of a liberal arts philosophy in public institutions of higher education … The essays are all by respected and experienced scholars, among them Jeffrey Williams (Carnegie Mellon), Yolanda Moses (Univ. of California, Riverside), and Christopher Newfield (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) ... Summing up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals."
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    “This book is an important companion and corrective to recent work. The cases made in these valuable essays are varied, subtle, and provocative, and affirm that nothing could be more important than to invest our public dollars in the humanities crucible of effective citizenry and global awareness.”
    - Susanne Woods (Council of Independent Colleges)

    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and where their neglect would be most damaging for the nation.
     
    The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. For instance, they deplore the push by administrations to narrow learning into quantifiable outcomes as well as the demands of state governments for more practical, usable training. Indeed, for those who suggest that a college education should be “practical”-that it should lean toward the sciences and engineering, where the high-paying jobs are-this book points out that while a few nations produce as many technicians as the United States does, America is still renowned worldwide for its innovation and creativity, skills taught most effectively in the humanities. Most importantly, the essays in this collection examine ways to make the humanities even more effective, such as offering a broader array of options than the traditional major/minor scheme, options that combine a student’s professional and intellectual interests, like the new medical humanities programs.
     
    A democracy can only be as energetic as the minds of its citizens, and the questions fundamental to the humanities are also fundamental to a thoughtful life. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities-and our citizens-even stronger in the future.

    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
    1. From the Land-Grant Tradition to the Current Crisis in the Humanities
    Roger L. Geiger
    2. Old Wine in New Bottles, or New Wine in Old Bottles? The Humanities and Liberal Education in Today’
    s Universities
    Sheldon Rothblatt
    3. We Are All Nontraditional Learners Now: Community Colleges, Long-Life Learning, and Problem-Solving Humanities
    Kathleen Woodward
    4. Humanities and Inclusion: A Twenty-First-Century Land-Grant University Tradition
    Yolanda T. Moses
    5. Sticking Up for Liberal Arts and Humanities Education: Governance, Leadership, and Fiscal Crisis
    Daniel Lee Kleinman
    6. Speaking the Languages of the Humanities
    Charlotte Melin
    7. Graduate Training for a Digital and Public Humanities
    Bethany Nowviskie
    8. Can the Humanities Save Medicine, and Vice Versa?
    John McGowan
    9. The Need for Critical University Studies
    Jeffrey J. Williams
    10. What Are the Humanities For? Rebuilding the Public University
    Christopher Newfield
    Afterword
    Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
    Notes on Contributors
    Index
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