March 26, 1999
Six Proposals to Revive the Humanities
Today's consensus about the state of the humanities -- it's bad, it's getting worse, and no one is doing much about it -- is supported by dismal facts. The percentage of undergraduates majoring in humanities fields has been halved over the past three decades. Financing for faculty research has decreased. The salary gap between full-time scholars in the humanities and in other fields has widened, and more and more
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