history crisis 
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SOURCE: American Historical Association website
12/27/2018
AHA to address urgent problem of students dropping history after taking an introductory course
The American Historical Association received a $1.65 million grant to study the problem.
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12/30/2018
So I Became a Historian—Now I’m Telling How It Worked Out
by Vaughn Davis Bornet
Advice to young people considering history as a major.
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SOURCE: Atlantic: "The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century"
12-13-2018
Provost at center of the debate over fate of the history major in Wisconsin defends his approach
by Adam Harris
Greg Summers is the historian who may be ending the history major at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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SOURCE: War On The Rocks
12-10-2018
"The Historical Profession is Committing Slow-Motion Suicide"
by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin
The discipline mostly has itself to blame for its current woes, say historians Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
12-6-18
Fewer Students Are Majoring in History, But We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About Why
by Jason Steinhauer
Economics alone doesn’t explain the decline in history majors.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
11-26-18
Where are all the history majors?
by Benjamin M. Schmidt
Of all the major disciplines, history has seen the steepest declines in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded.
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11/25/18
Challenges Historians Face in Africa Today: An Interview With Joseph K. Adjaye
by Erik Moshe
"The discipline of history in Africa is facing a crisis in that it is attracting fewer and fewer students."
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
9-30-18
Must Visiting Assistant Professorships Be Career Purgatory?
Two historians, two stories.
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SOURCE: Sapping Attention (blog)
7-27-18
Mea culpa: there IS a crisis in the humanities
by Benjamin Schmidt
University of Washington history professor Benjamin Schmidt says the statistics show he was wrong to minimize the crisis.
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9/2/18
One Historian's Helpful Tip on Making History More Attractive to Students
by David Lee McMullen
This fall he'll be offering a course that no one could possible think is dull.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
7-9-18
Where Historians Work
The American Historical Association this week launches Where Historians Work an online tool tracking career outcomes for the more than 8,500 historians who earned their Ph.D.s at U.S. institutions between 2004 and 2014.
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SOURCE: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
6-20-18
Conservative Mark Bauerlein says humanities faculty are in denial about their own role in the decline of the humanities
by Mark Bauerlein
"The undergraduate masses want one thing, the elite tells them they’re wrong and deliver another thing."
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SOURCE: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
5-25-18 (accessed)
Number of history majors is up at community colleges
This is happening while the number of history majors at 4 year colleges is in decline.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association (blog)
5/8/18
Where do historians live and work?
The answer is provided in the AHA's “Where Historians Work,” an ambitious research project designed to track the career outcomes of everyone who earned a PhD in history from 2004–13 in the United States.
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SOURCE: The Seattle Times
3-13-18
University of Washington Dean defends the liberal arts degree on economic grounds
by Robert Stacey
Historian Robert Stacey says the belief that history majors are unemployable is plain wrong.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3-13-18
Many professors in Wisconsin saw their fears of a 2015 change to state tenure law realized last week
Faculty members at Wisconsin Stevens Point react to a plan to cut 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology, and expand more job-oriented programs.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-4-18
These History Ph.D. Programs Pay More Than Lip Service to Alternative Careers
Criticized for producing graduates with few job prospects, doctoral programs are starting to reform.
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SOURCE: AHA's Perspectives
2/26/18
Is the jobs picture for historians as bad as it seems?
by Dylan Ruediger
The American Historical Association says it's hard to tell and that's a problem.
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SOURCE: Times Higher Education
2/15/18
What departments of history are doing about lower enrollments
Five historians reflect on the disciplinary, institutional, social and political challenges facing their subject.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
2-13-18
Calling Academe's Bluff
Erin Bartram’s “quit lit” essay asks readers to consider what’s lost -- personally but especially in terms of disciplinary knowledge -- with so many scholars leaving a broken system behind.
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