Some humanities buck trends, grow
At meeting last semester, University academic leaders agreed to ‘monitor’ declining numbers
Last semester, Japanese Literature professor Edward Kamens, then the acting director of the Whitney Humanities Center, noticed a consistent refrain in conversations with professors — and it wasn’t particularly uplifting.
Those with whom Kamens spoke, he recalled, were concerned about drops in humanities enrollment, particularly in history, art history and philosophy.
So Kamens organized a conference.
