Director, Humanities, Arts, and Culture Programs and Humanities Indicators (http://bit.ly/1vcZlh4) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Quotes and RTs ≠ opinions.
"For those of you afraid of taking a different path in college, or even in life, I encourage you to take that leap. You don’t have to lose yourself in the process — you might just find a more complete version." bit.ly/3QdNEr7
"Within this widespread adoption of artificial intelligence... it is used by at least half of all students, except #humanities and natural sciences majors" bit.ly/3RWKM2t
"I've taught a college course on AI's effect on society and, with due deference to those eggheads at Microsoft, they are missing the point. A background in history or English is excellent, perhaps unsurpassed, preparation for the Age of AI." bit.ly/4unhebH
Rob Townsend
"AI may be able to reproduce an essay, but it cannot replicate the intricacy of back-and-forth deliberation that goes into essay writing. Indeed, this is how the muscle memory of healthy scepticism is cultivated." bit.ly/4ohYTvo
“We are now reaching a crisis point where if the number (of pages) goes down further, it’s unclear to me whether my discipline of #history can really be taught” bit.ly/4efExya
“what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.” bit.ly/4aIeONM
"The belief that every field in the humanities is secretly controlled by social justice warriors has always been a false conspiracy theory, but to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion." bit.ly/4fBZ42j
“Most studies find that history majors do quite well in the marketplace, but the message has not reached parents who are paying high tuition costs...College has become a place to gain specialized skills that lead to a specific job upon graduation.” bit.ly/4e8VhXI
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Some fields of studies have been dubbed as useless. We speak to graduates of the "most useless degrees" to find out whether it's actually true.
"Some humanistic disciplines take matters of value and meaning as a central focus; others aim to describe and explain the human world without pronouncing judgment; but all play an indispensable role in refining our conception of what is possible for human beings" bit.ly/4vyfk9c
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Spending years on one project, stuck in a lab with the same small group of people, was not how I wanted to spend my working life.
Last year Microsoft Research reported on the 10 jobs most threatened by artificial intelligence. Should I, dear reader, be running scared? Historians are No.
Faculty in the humanities are grappling with a changing educational landscape as debates arise regarding student preparation and nationwide headlines question students’ abilities to read longer texts.
Introduction We presume that our readers recognize the value of the humanistic disciplines and their central place in the modern research university. The humanities and the social sciences take as the...
