Proposed rule to cut federal student loan support: "students in Religious Studies programs, #Humanities/Liberal Arts programs, Education programs, Drama programs, and Music programs will be most impacted" bit.ly/4cwFWzt
TRUST TEACHERS. Two words that, if people actually widely believed them, would utterly reform education in this country.
Registration is open for our annual summer leadership events! Whether you are a new or experienced leader, the ADE-ALD Summer Seminar in San José and the virtual MAPS Leadership Institute will give you the support you need to strengthen your department. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars
Headline: We Need Humanities Research. "Society needs specialized humanities research—research that delves deeply into literary, linguistic, or cultural topics. Just as medical research cannot progress without basic scientific research, so social and cultural criticism needs deep research before it can 'go public.'" Paula M. Krebs, Executive Director, MLA; Modern Language Association logo, #TalkAboutHumanities
"Society needs specialized humanities research—research that delves deeply into literary, linguistic, or cultural topics," says @paulakrebs.bsky.social. We need to invest in humanities research for the advancement of society. #TalkAboutHumanities
"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend
their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."
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Research tells us that our majors love our disciplines but worry about job prospects. Starting April 20, join us for the virtual workshop series "Reimagining Humanities Coursework for Career Readiness" for strategies to help your students thrive & your programs grow.
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Open to leaders of all types--experienced, new, and aspiring--the summer leadership events offer you community and specific skills and strategies to help your programs, your colleagues, and your students. Join us in San Jose (May 28-30) or virtually (22-25 June).
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Deadline: April 27. *Free* week-long institute that combines strategies for teaching reading & writing with learning about teaching at access-oriented institutions like community colleges. Share with your graduate students & early career folks!
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Amazing opportunities available from @modernlanguage.bsky.social right now.
+ Reading and Writing Pedagogy Institutes at Access Oriented Institutions (various locations)
+ Leadership Summer Seminar (San Jose)
+ Leadership Institute (virtual)
+ Reimagining Humanities Coursework for Career Readiness
If you are part of a comparative literature dept, apply for a fellowship to attend either the MLA seminar (San Jose) or virtual leadership institute.
Supported by the Luce Foundation & in partnership w/ the Association of Departments & Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL). Application link:
I loved both the craft and the heart of @tkingfisher.com ‘s Nettle & Bone. So much that I read it once and then immediately read it again.
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A spot of joy for your day. (Thanks @gettymuseum.bsky.social )
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Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent!
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If you are part of a comparative literature dept, apply for a fellowship to attend either the MLA seminar (San Jose) or virtual leadership institute.
Supported by the Luce Foundation & in partnership w/ the Association of Departments & Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL). Application link:
Screenshot Lucavi @lucavi_ftw good news everyone SPACE com Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say.
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Deadline: April 27. *Free* week-long institute that combines strategies for teaching reading & writing with learning about teaching at access-oriented institutions like community colleges. Share with your graduate students & early career folks!
ALA Prevails in Federal Lawsuit to Preserve IMLS. ALA 150, American Library Association.
ALA and our co-plaintiff AFSCME have signed a binding settlement agreement with the federal government, keeping the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) intact. This marks the conclusion of ALA's lawsuit - and victory for library supporters. The settlement follows the dismissal earlier this week of the appeal in a separate, related case. But the fight isn't over.
"When the administration began shuttering IMLS last year, it set off a chain reaction. Libraries across the country started cutting hours, staff and services people rely on - after school programs, support for jobseekers and connection for older adults. This settlement protects life-changing library services for communities across the country. ALA will continue to defend every American's freedom to read and learn.” - ALA President Sam Helmick
MORE NEWS: ALA & our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social have prevailed in our lawsuit to preserve the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)!
Our binding settlement agreement with the Dept. of Justice protects the agency and its congressionally mandated work. More: www.ala.org/news/2026/04...
Are you in a humanities department & concerned about enrollments? Research tells us that our majors love our disciplines but are worried about job prospects. Join us for the virtual workshop series "Reimagining Humanities Coursework for Career Readiness" for strategies to help your students thrive.
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Astronauts For Properly Funding The Humanities
"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely"
🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Huh. I’m sitting with this one for a minute. Is this because these are the tasks most readily made available via search engines and the like? Or baked into most commonly-used software like word processors?
A federal judge ruled last night that public universities in 17 states with Democratic attorneys general do not have to provide data for the massive new IPEDS admissions survey, pointing to staffing challenges within the Department of Education. It's a maze of deadlines to navigate across higher ed.
Everyone knows the president’s budget request is performance and can have little to no bearing on actual congressional appropriations. So this is just DOGE-like pretext to eliminate the unit that funds social research, which they dislike bc DEI something something.
