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In the New York Times today Stanley Fish comments on the educational policies in the State of the Union address. In brief, he suggests that we are setting up an educational system that favors scientific innovation over the Humanities at all levels of education and that the education we’re providing is not academic but [...]
Continue Reading →Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director of the National Humanities Center will present a lecture based on his new book, “The Humanities and the Dream of America” on Thursday, January 20, 2011 – 5:30pm – 7:00pm. The event will be located at Duke University’s Smith Warehouse campus in the FHI Garage – C105, Bay [...]
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The call for more substantial support for the Humanities in Higher Education is being heard and the good news was reported in an article in the Boston Globe on November 8th. In it, Cornell, Harvard and Dartmouth are slated to be pledging support for literature and the arts and [...]
Continue Reading →arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. Its purpose is to advance the use of digital tools and explore resources for teaching methods in the arts and humanities. Another website, Digital Humanities Questions [...]
Continue Reading →The work librarians have done throughout the last two decades has involved a particular and yet changing skill set. Read any current job description and tagged onto the end of it one can find the remnants of required tasks such as filing, organizing and having the ability to lift heavy boxes. This alone may [...]
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At the Apple WWDC 2010 conference, Steve Jobs ended his keynote address with a slide that showed a street sign with an intersection between Technology and the Liberal Arts. This slide, for Jobs, “represents what Apple is all about. Apple is not just a technology company. Even though we have and invent some [...]
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