Comments on: A defense of the humanities in these budget-cutting times /2012/11/12/a-defense-of-the-humanities-in-these-budget-cutting-times/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Ryan /2012/11/12/a-defense-of-the-humanities-in-these-budget-cutting-times/comment-page-1/#comment-752723 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:59:45 +0000 /?p=8804#comment-752723 Hi Bora, thanks. Link should be fixed now.

]]> By: Bora /2012/11/12/a-defense-of-the-humanities-in-these-budget-cutting-times/comment-page-1/#comment-752720 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:45:47 +0000 /?p=8804#comment-752720 When I click that link, I end up in this page here /2012/08/31/1010010101011001/138/

The is no metion to Dr. Petsko letter there…

]]> By: Ryan /2012/11/12/a-defense-of-the-humanities-in-these-budget-cutting-times/comment-page-1/#comment-752401 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:23:51 +0000 /?p=8804#comment-752401 Thanks for the comment, Dmitri. Regardless of whether or not humanities programs are profitable, I still don’t really like the idea of basing our assessments of *any* university upon a monetary cost/benefit metric. Obviously, we have to account for the basic economics and financial questions, but I just don’t think that universities should be shaped solely based upon which programs generate the most money. I think the linked essay above illustrates quite well why this is a problem.

]]> By: Dimitri /2012/11/12/a-defense-of-the-humanities-in-these-budget-cutting-times/comment-page-1/#comment-752191 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:47:21 +0000 /?p=8804#comment-752191 At my University, the humanities are extremely profitable for the University. We humanities professors teach large numbers of students, and we are cheap relative to our colleagues in other schools — we don’t require expensive labs, for instance, or sound-proof cubicles for our students to practice in.

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