Support the Movement:
Petition against the Discontinuation of Language Programs at SUNY Albany
Petition to Save the Centre for Ethics
Students Against the School of Languages and Literatures
Petition for East Asian Studies
Petition against the School of Languages and Literatures
Facebook Groups:
Save the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto
Save East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto
Students against the School of Languages and Literatures at UofT
The Humanities at Risk:
October 17, 2010: “The Future of Wannabe U.” by Gaye Tuchman, The Chronicle Review
“Library Inc.” by Daniel Goldstein, The Chronicle Review
“The Corporate analogy unravels” by Andrew Ross, The Chronicle Review
“The Steinbrenner Effect” by Steven Conn, The Chronicle Review
“Lessons From Paulo Freire” by Henry A. Giroux, The Chronicle Review (subscription)
“Are We Commodities? If so, we’re selling ourselves cheaply” by Russell J. Rickford, The Chronicle Review (subscription)
“The University of the Customer: A thought experiment” by Bill Sams, The Chronicle Review (subscription) October 11, 2010: “The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives” by Stanley Fish, Opinionator blog, NY Times
October 1, 2010: “Budget cuts at SUNY Albany to hit academic programs” CBS6Albany.com
January 10, 2010: “The case for an arts education” by Alexandra Gould, The Varsity
November 19, 2009: “Students worried for interdisciplinary programs” by Shonith Rajendran, The Varsity
“A Critique of the cuts” on Inside Higher Ed (video on video page)
“The ‘Learning Knights’ of Bell Telephone” op-ed by Wes Davis, NY Times
“Bottom line shows humanities really do make money” by Robert N. Watson, UCLA Today
“Nussbaum discusses liberal arts education, global citizenship” by Isshin Teshima, William & Mary News
“Littérature Comparée et Comparaisons” par Daniel-Henri Pageaux
“Academe’s Stepchild” by David Hayes, Unversity Affairs
“Teaching the Humanities: Vital to Society?” by John Allemang, The Globe and Mail
“From the Humanities to Ecology” Masao Miyoshi, Soka University
Blog Posts
“A Plea for Conversation” by Brian Chappell
“A brief, if non-commercial, plug” by Prof. Mondo
“University of Toronto kills Comparative Literature: Action Needed!”
“Canada’s Cultural Famine,” blog post by Natalie Pendergast
“University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature threatened with closure” blog post by Julija Šukys
“University of Toronto to ‘disestablish’ the Centre for Comparative Literature” blog post by Sean Gurd
The Academic blog by Carmen Faye
The Educated Imagination: A Website Dedicated to Northrop Frye, post by Jonathan Allan
