Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
1. From the Land-Grant Tradition to the Current Crisis in the
Humanities
Roger L. Geiger
2. Old Wine in New Bottles, or New Wine in Old Bottles? The
Humanities and Liberal Education in Today’s Universities
Sheldon Rothblatt
3. We Are All Nontraditional Learners Now: Community Colleges,
Long-Life Learning, and Problem-Solving Humanities
Kathleen Woodward
4. Humanities and Inclusion: A Twenty-First-Century Land-Grant
University Tradition
Yolanda T. Moses
5. Sticking Up for Liberal Arts and Humanities Education:
Governance, Leadership, and Fiscal Crisis
Daniel Lee Kleinman
6. Speaking the Languages of the Humanities
Charlotte Melin
7. Graduate Training for a Digital and Public Humanities
Bethany Nowviskie
8. Can the Humanities Save Medicine, and Vice Versa?
John McGowan
9. The Need for Critical University Studies
Jeffrey J. Williams
10. What Are the Humanities For? Rebuilding the Public
University
Christopher Newfield
Afterword
Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed
Notes on Contributors
Index
GORDON HUTNER is a professor of English at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books,
including What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel,
1920–1960.
FEISAL G. MOHAMED is a professor of English at the CUNY Graduate
Center in New York. A past president of the Milton Society of
America, his latest book is Milton and the Post-Secular Present:
Ethics, Politics, Terrorism.
"Hutner and Mohamed offer ten essays about changing views of a
liberal arts philosophy in public institutions of higher education
… The essays are all by respected and experienced scholars, among
them Jeffrey Williams (Carnegie Mellon), Yolanda Moses (Univ. of
California, Riverside), and Christopher Newfield (Univ. of
California, Santa Barbara) ... Summing up: Recommended. Graduate
students, researchers, faculty, and professionals."
*CHOICE*
“This book is an important companion and corrective to recent work.
The cases made in these valuable essays are varied, subtle, and
provocative, and affirm that nothing could be more important than
to invest our public dollars in the humanities crucible of
effective citizenry and global awareness.”
*Council of Independent Colleges*
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