Joanne Jacobs
Politicizing humanities leaves grads still seeking deep, impractical learning
Colleges have politicized the humanities, leaving graduates feeling cheated of a liberal arts education.
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 202 min read
Where to find curious, confident, inquisitive students
Her expectations were low she visited Utah Valley University, a large, open-enrollment state university, admits Martha C. Nussbaum, a...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Blame diversity-crats for turning humanities into decolonial, anti-racist 'beards'
Humanities professors, under heavy pressure to prove their discipline is "useful," have gone political, writes Tyler Austin Harper in The...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Harvard students can't handle 'The Scarlet Letter' -- but prisoners can
“The last time I taught The Scarlet Letter, I discovered that my students were really struggling to understand the sentences as sentences...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 8, 20232 min read
If liberal arts are dying, is it suicide?
Liberal educators aren't making the case for liberal arts education, writes John Agresto, former president of St. John's College in Santa...
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