Eric Adler
@ProfEricAdler
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Professor of Classics @UofMaryland; interested in humanism, classics, higher education, and jazz. RTs ≠ endorsements. New book: https://t.co/mkDLmJUFxo
Kensington, MD
Joined December 2017
Look what's arrived in the mail, dear reader. It's my author's copies of *Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt - Paul Elmer More Correspondence*, which will be officially released on Sept. 15!
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RT @rpondiscio: If I could live my life again, I’d seek out this kind of education, and save myself a lifetime of playing catch-up.
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As a mid-career classicist, I increasingly feel as if my hope is to make it to retirement before the wheels fall off. I’ve been fighting to try to make things better for classics and the humanities, but obviously it’s not going our way right now.
My image is that we employed academics are each sitting on various icebergs, trying to guess which will melt the fastest.
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RT @alexpriou: A Harvard degree really only means “I got into Harvard.” These students worked their hardest prior to admission. From then….
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RT @zenahitz: Once again, another factor in grade inflation is competition in courses. Core curricula give colleges an opportunity to set….
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RT @jennfrey: There is no way to fix this without changing the current incentive structures on both sides. Faculty get destroyed on evals i….
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Absolutely correct. And I have the battle scars to prove it.
One thing that isn't adequately appreciated about humanities academia in recent decades is that its obligatory dogma was anti-humanism. You could be a feminist, Marxist, postcolonialist, etc, but the thing you weren't supposed to be was a humanist, which was simply cringe./1.
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RT @thenewthinkery: Check out this article from friend of the show, smarty pants, rock and roll legend, and all around great guy, Eric Adle….
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RT @JTasioulas: Our democracy needs more than ever academics with the capability to convey complex ideas to a wide audience in an effective….
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RT @josh_puzey: Couldn't agree more! Now is the time to support the Humanities. Not eliminate them.
chronicle.com
The crisis is not one of resources but of values.
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RT @LuElla_DAmico: "To a great extent, it appears, our crisis of the humanities is a crisis of academic leadership — a crisis of will, not….
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Thank you to @RealClearEd for linking to my editorial in the *Chronicle*! Readers without access to the CHE can access the full article through RealClear's link.
They're Killing the Humanities On Purpose
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RT @dwaldenwrites: Ando’s numerous articles these past few months have shown that virtually all financial arguments for cutting humanities….
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In his post, Roth doesn't do so. Perhaps the disinclination to look in the mirror is not solely a faculty problem. end/.
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But it's undeniable in the cases discussed in my editorial (at Tulsa and Chicago) that administrative decisions play a huge role in the marginalization of the humanities. Can Roth provide any counter-evidence, to suggest that this is not the case? 5/.
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In my book *The Battle of the Classics*, I'm critical of the ways in which some humanities faculty members appear to make problems worse. Some professors, for example, seem to soapbox, rather than allow students to come to their own conclusions. 4/.
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Faculty members can pretend that they are merely the victims of administrative decisions and need not look in the mirror or do any sort of soul-searching. Everything is someone else's fault. 3/.
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It is simplistic to suggest that everything that's gone wrong is the fault of administrators and that faculty members share no responsibility. Administrators need to make difficult decisions, given their limited financial resources. 2/.
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I can understand why high-level administrators--such as the author of this post, who is the president of Wesleyan and a thoughtful observer of US higher ed--find the penchant for faculty members to foist the blame on administration irksome. 1/.
When in doubt, blame the administrators.
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RT @HootenWilson: Why have so many colleges drunk the same poison? . "To a great extent, it appears, our crisis of the humanities is a cris….
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RT @JTasioulas: “In a society dominated by so much economic hustling, they should provide opportunities for Aristotelian leisure — to allow….
chronicle.com
The crisis is not one of resources but of values.
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