A Modern Great Books Solution to the Humanities’ Enrollment Woes

Leonard Cassuto, Chronicle of Higher Education (November 11, 2019) | Posted on November 21, 2019

"Among the legion of problems facing doctoral education in the humanities is the tendency to talk about those problems in isolation. We debate the future of the Ph.D. and the faculty job market as if those issues were completely separate from undergraduate education.

In fact, they are closely connected: A root cause of the dearth of tenure-track jobs in the liberal arts is the steady decline in the number of undergraduates majoring in those fields. It’s hard to justify hiring new professors in departments without enough students to teach."

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