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.