Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities ...

To address the need for interdisciplinary scholarship that can help illuminate the complex ways that nature and culture are intertwined, the Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative has developed a ...

Do American universities produce too many Ph.D.s? It’s a decades-old question that has intensified in recent years as worries about a stagnant academic-job market, record graduate-student debt, and ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. As Scott Jaschik points out in his January 13, 2014 article, “The Third Rail,” the terrible ...

I write to support and extend E.L Meszaros GS’ recent column “Increase Training in Public Scholarship.” As Meszaros notes, PhD students can take graduate level courses in Public Humanities and benefit ...

Complaints about doctoral education in the humanities -- it takes too long, it's not leading to jobs, it's disjointed -- are rampant. So too are periodic calls for radical reform. But Stanford ...

On Feb. 19, Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, released a report containing suggestions for the future direction of humanities graduate programs at Yale, which is meant to ...

I read with great interest the series of articles in this week’s Chronicle about the death of the humanities. It would be a tragedy if the humanities were to die, and if we as a people no longer cared ...

Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard and Princeton are all seeing changes to humanities programs at the graduate level.

Earlier this week, I wrote about the seemingly baffling fact that, despite a desolate academic job market, the number of new students enrolling in arts and humanities Ph.D. programs managed to grow by ...

Arts and humanities give meaning. In January 2024, the CHA hosted a Graduate Salon where graduate students, faculty, and administrators gathered to discuss the pressing challenges faced by graduate ...

The University of Chicago announced a series of changes recently to help its financial future, and that has some alumni worried about its reputation in the academic world. Why it matters: Despite not ...