So @kataplexis wrote an open letter (https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2021/06/open-letter-to-scs-on-supporting.html …) outlining some things that institutional classics, esp. @scsclassics could be doing differently to help the field survive in these difficult times.
And I think she makes good arguments.
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And to be clear, I'm not dismissing or ripping on the CAS. I'm sure they're pushing hard with the resources they have to do what they can. But I've never gotten the sense their efforts are central to how
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But here is the
@AHAhistorians 's equivalent: https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/why-study-history … Be sure to click through and look at the Department Advocacy Toolkit and esp. the History Professors and Department Chairs page.Näytä tämä ketju -
They're not just triaging endangered departments here - there is a whole-process effort, from promoting history majors, to career advice for majors, a bibliography of articles extolling the value of the degree (https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/why-study-history/department-advocacy-toolkit/external-resources-to-advocate-for-history-and-the-humanities …)...
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They present not one justification for history, but half a dozen; a war chest of arguments (with data!) to be made *before* you get to the point of trying to swim up-stream against a hostile university administration that has already decided against you.
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Obviously, Classics is a smaller discipline than history, with fewer institutional resources. But I really think this is the model we should be thinking on and the sort of work we should be valuing.
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