Digital Humanities Librarian/DH Center Director living/working on unceded Kumeyaay land (San Diego). US historian (PhD) + info scientist (MSIS). Disappointed UNC-CH alumna. Podcast teacher. Still masking. Dogs are my jam. @ach.bsky.social Co-VP. she/her
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These aren't bad folks, and they're not necessarily the worst admin I've encountered. But their resistance to taking the time to understand the humanities/humanistic social sciences is infuriating. I imagine admin who come from the humanities are expected to be well grounded in scientific research
There is a willful ignorance among many administrators to even listen to all our arguments. I’ve seen this first hand at UMass. All the evidence you cite about how humanities subsidizes STEM, how humanities majors actually get jobs, how AI makes humanities degrees MORE relevant- they just don’t care
We cannot expect accurate renderings of education from a magazine owned by a media conglomerate owned by a private equity firm deeply invested in EdTech.
That is, The New Yorker.
Nor from a magazine owned by a venture capital fund deeply invested in EdTech.
That is, The Atlantic.
Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
