Blow Up The Humanities with Toby Miller
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- 3. Between 1970-71 and 2003-04, English majors declined from 7.6 to 3.9 percent of the national total, other languages and literatures dropped from 2.5 to 1.3 percent, philosophy and religious studies from 0.9 to 0.7 percent, and history from 18.5 to 10.7 percent.
- 4. 300,000 250,000 200,000 Social sciences and history ........................................ 150,000 Philosophy and religious studies .................................. Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ......................... English language and literature/letters 100,000 ....................... 50,000 0
- 5. In the same period, business enrollments increased by 176 percent, and communication studies shot up 616 percent.
- 6. 400,000 350,000 300,000 Business 250,000 ........................................................... Communication, journalism, and related programs .............................................. 200,000 English language and literature/letters ....................... Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 150,000 ......................... Philosophy and religious studies .................................. Social sciences and history 100,000 ........................................ 50,000 0
- 7. 400,000 350,000 300,000 Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies ................................... 250,000 Business ........................................................... Communication, journalism, and related programs .............................................. 200,000 English language and literature/letters ....................... Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 150,000 ......................... Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities ............................................. 100,000 Multi/interdisciplinary studies ................................ Philosophy and religious studies .................................. 50,000 Social sciences and history ........................................ 0
- 8. Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address called for increased expenditure on research, education, and teachers of mathematics and science. He did not mention the humanities.
- 9. The Republican Party has announced its desire to exterminate the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- 10. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act The National Science Foundation received US$3 billion for research. The National Endowment for the Arts received $50 million. It provided not a cent to humanities research;Unless you count the $14 billion allocated for food stamps – which increasingly supplement the income of low-paid humanities adjuncts.
- 11. Compared with other fields, tenure-track hiring in language and literature occurs at two-thirds the national average. In 2009, just 53 percent of humanities faculty was in full-time employment, and an even smaller proportion in tenurable positions.
- 12. In 2003, health academics were paid an average of $6,000 more than in 1987, during which time the humanities average declined by a thousand dollars; in 2005-06, a business academic cost twice as much as a humanities one, compared to one and a half times as much twenty years earlier.