ask why
stop, my dear colleagues, imaginging that the humanities are a bad ROI (they aren’t; they’re actually quite excellent; also this isn’t the argument if you want to preserve the university at all—coming for one form of knowledge is a gateway to them all)
ask who benefits & to what end
stop, my dear colleagues, imaginging that the humanities are a bad ROI (they aren’t; they’re actually quite excellent; also this isn’t the argument if you want to preserve the university at all—coming for one form of knowledge is a gateway to them all)
ask who benefits & to what end
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Paul Cohen
it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities
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we humanities folks have been canaries in the mines & frankly lots of y’all have been happy to watch us perish
when they say grants that study “women” scientifically, & you’re shocked, we aren’t
who benefits from cutting us
you do not get a bigger lab or more funding if they cut my classes on white Christian nationalism.
it’s together or bust, folks
are we saving knowledge production or are we holding off for “I’ll get mine”
friendly historian reminder that that is a shit strategy, even if it’s yours
& for the love of chocolate drop the arrogance in spaces of shared governance
be mad when cuts come thru
be suspicious when they’re for disciplines that suggest non-white non-men are humans & ways of being worth knowing about