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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@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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