6.00 PM, Wednesday 15 September, 2010 | Philomathean Halls, 4th Floor College Hall
Wednesday, September 15th, 6pm | Philo Halls, 4th Floor College Hall
Featuring:
Ralph M. Rosen, Graduate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Classics
Peter Conn, Professor of English and Education
Monica R. Miller, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Africana Studies
Delicious refreshments.
Moderated by Felicity Paxton, Adjunct Professor of Communication and Director of the Penn Women’s Center
In the aftermath of the global economic collapse, university endowments are shrinking, grant and program funding are declining, and hiring has been frozen. Throughout the United States, many graduate programs have drastically decreased the number of spots for new graduate students. What will be the impact of these changes on the next generation of humanities scholars, and what are the implications of the economic collapse for the future of American higher education?
Join the Philomathean Society and our distinguished panelists for a frank discussion of the future of graduate education in the humanities.
All guests are encouraged to read some of the background literature on this debate – Dr. Conn’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 4, 2010, entitled “We Need to Acknowledge the Realities of Employment in the Humanities”; Thomas Benton’s article for the Chronicle, entitled “Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go”; Anthony Grafton’s attack on the British graduate programs in the humanities, entitled “Britain: the Disgrace of the Universities”; and Anthony Grafton’s “Humanities and Inhumanities” in The New Republic.
