The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom Three Necessa
This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, ar
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“Finally, a book that defends the humanities not with violins but rather by linking them to the status of contingent labor in the academy, and what the deplorable state of both means for all of us. The Humanities, Higher Education and Academic Freedom is an important intervention that spotlights the most salient defense of tenure for our times. Bérubé and Ruth center on the forgotten side of academic freedom, namely governance. This is a bracing and necessary book that should be mandatory reading for all department chairs—and everyone else who teaches college.” — Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English, Fordham University, and columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education “The Humanities are fine. The profession of teaching the Humanities, on the other hand, is a disaster. Rather than offering just another woeful dirge on American higher education, Bérubé and Ruth detail the distinct choices that have led us into this mess and chart a pragmatic course to build a new, sustainable, future.” — David Perry, Associate Professor of English, Dominican University “If I was one of the usual stable of writers asked to churn out op-eds on the decline of humanities, I would steer well clear of this book. It makes accepted opinion on these issues look really, really dumb. It shows brilliantly and conclusively that the loudly-trumpeted crisis of the humanities is really a crisis of university employment, not of trendy ideas. The book ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about ideas or for that matter expects professionalism from the university. This wake-up call should not be necessary. But a lot of opinion-makers have been asleep at the switch.” — Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University “This witty and ferocious defense of the American university not only shows how the attacks on the humanities, assaults on academic freedom, and decimation of the tenure-line professoriate have worked together – all in the name of corporatization and budgetary “efficiency” – to bring this once proud institution to its knees, but also demands that the few remaining tenure-line faculty stop rationalizing these changes, and bestir themselves to resist them.” — Karen Kelsky, Academic Job Market Consultant and Founder of ‘The Professor Is In’ “Innovative solutions are out there, solutions that propose reforming the largely arbitrary way that many departments go about acquiring contingent labor. Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth argue in their book, The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments, forthcoming in May from Palgrave Macmillan, that departments should develop teaching-intensive tenure tracks. The search protocols and evaluation processes we’ve long used for conventional tenure-track faculty can be adapted for teaching-intensive positions.” — Emily E. VanDette, The Chronicle of Higher Education 10.1057/9781137506122 - The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom, Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth
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