Advocacy resources

Opinion: “What Will the Humanities Look Like in a Decade?” Robert D. Newman, president and director of the National Humanities Center

Metrics That Matter: Counting What’s Really Important to College Students, Zachary Bleemer, Mukul Kumar, Aashish Mehta, Chris Muellerleile, and Christopher Newfield. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, Christopher Newfield. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
The Oxford Handbook of Positive Humanities, edited by James Pawelski, University of Pennsylvania, and Louis Tay, Purdue University. Oxford University Press, 2022.

“The Humanities as Service Departments: Facing the Budget Logic,” Christopher Newfield. Modern Language Association’s Profession journal
“The Humanities Crisis is a Funding Crisis,” Christopher Newfield. Modern Language Association’s Summer 2022 newsletter
“The End of the English Major,” Nathan Heller. The New Yorker Magazine’s Annals of Higher Education Issue, March 6, 2023.
“Letter from an English Department on the Brink,” Sarah Blackwood, associate professor and chair of English, Pace University (in response to Nathan Heller’s article). The New York Review of Books, April 2, 2023
“The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures,” Christopher Breu, Department of English, Illinois State University. humanities, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal
“The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For.” Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis. LA Review of Books, July 14, 2023.