The Humanities Crisis Is a Funding Crisis
My previous column, “Research for All,” defined postsecondary education through a necessary combination of research and teaching and called for the gradual but relentless push to build our infrastructure—our working conditions—so that all college teachers have paid time for the scholarship they trained to do. Foregrounding diverse modes of research is also a necessary condition of expanding the share of jobs on the tenure track.
Of course, today our colleges and universities are going in the opposite (and I believe wrong) direction.