Even my beloved alma mater, although it takes in, give or take, a kajillion dollars per year in gifts, is under some pressure. Luckily, these proposed changes affect only teaching and research, rather than core university functions, such as gift solicitation.

This same trend is playing out across US colleges and universities--most of which have nowhere near the endowment U of C has to work with. Disinvestment in world languages and Humanities absolutely will have serious global consequences. x.com/ProfEricAdler/…

The literary canon basically stands up. It's good. Reading it seriously, and allowing its works to take up residence in your mind, will enrich you. It is also very pleasurable, and we can sometimes neglect to stress this.

My new piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education focuses on the ways in which university administrators knowingly undercut the humanities. Take a look! chronicle.com/article/theyre…

In the Chronicle Review, Eric Adler argues that recent news out of U Chicago and Tulsa reflect a failure of administrators to know what college is for: chronicle.com/article/theyre…

Excellent piece, bravo!

It’s like these universities wanted this in the first place.

An excellent piece, and this point is vital: the humanities easily pay for themselves. Their destruction is nothing more than a determination to steal money.

“In a society dominated by so much economic hustling, they should provide opportunities for Aristotelian leisure — to allow undergraduates the opportunity to contemplate the human predicament and determine the sort of life they’d like to lead..” chronicle.com/article/theyre…

Those interested in the ongoing fiasco at the University of Chicago would be well served to read Clifford Ando on the topic. Some horrifying details can be found in this article.

Why have so many colleges drunk the same poison? "To a great extent, it appears, our crisis of the humanities is a crisis of academic leadership — a crisis of will, not capacity." --Eric Adler Give us the liberating arts! And the great books!

Ando’s numerous articles these past few months have shown that virtually all financial arguments for cutting humanities programs are lies. They are the cheapest programs at any university and frequently subsidize the others. It’s trustee and administrative ideology.

Thank you to RealClearEducation for linking to my editorial in the *Chronicle*! Readers without access to the CHE can access the full article through RealClear's link.

"To a great extent, it appears, our crisis of the humanities is a crisis of academic leadership — a crisis of will, not capacity." A stellar piece by Eric Adler. Check it out if you haven't yet.