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N.S. Olya

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Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies @ The College of William & Mary | Greek vases, ethnicity, & otherness in Mediterranean antiquity | Chicago history and architecture enjoyer | Likes/Follows/Reposts =/= endorsements

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    Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social

    Pasts Imperfect is back! @laurenginsberg.bsky.social busts the myth of the "useless humanist" used to slash liberal arts depts. Then, ancient Mediterranean incarceration, tomes on the Renaissance library, returning the Piprahwa Gems, potomatoes 🥔🍅, new journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more

    This week, Nero scholar and higher ed expert Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist. Then, new ancient world scholarship, new journal issue for a global antiquity, upcoming wor...

    Pasts Imperfect 8.14.25

    This week, Nero scholar and higher ed expert Lauren Donovan Ginsberg busts the myth of the useless humanist. Then, new ancient world scholarship, new journal issue for a global antiquity, upcoming wor...
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    N.S. Olya @nsolya.bsky.social

    Wake up babe, people are posting on the Liverpool Classics Listserv that the destruction of the Humanities in the age of the neoliberal university has nothing to do with politics

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    Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social

    Others have more robust comments, but UChicago deciding to forgo language education—the literal thing they’re known for—and hoping that GenAI can teach grad students Akkadian and Homeric Greek is horrifying

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    N.S. Olya @nsolya.bsky.social

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    humanities departments, by and large, are incredibly cheap comparatively speaking. I've been at four different public institutions now, three as a student and one as faculty. At all of them, enrollments in Humanities courses were/are robust. So how do you claim the departments are failing? (2/4)

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    Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com

    fwiw, Virginia Tech isn't an impoverished school either and yet here they are, the dean of the college, cutting a signature interdisciplinary PhD program without giving a reason other than "bad vibes"

    For almost two decades, the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) program has provided interdisciplinary training for doctoral students working across theoretical fields. Graduates of the ASPECT program have completed original research in their dissertations, taught thousands undergraduate students across departments in the social sciences and humanities, published extensively across fields, earned national distinction, begun rewarding careers in higher education and other fields, and contributed to a thriving intellectual community among students and faculty at Virginia Tech and beyond. Even with recognition of the remarkable achievements, however, the ASPECT program has reached a point where it is no longer viable and will plan to be closed in the coming years. The difficult situation in higher education makes career prospects for program graduates uncertain. The structure of the program, involving faculty commitments across multiple departments and programs, is no longer sustainable given competing priorities. At a time of resource constraints and unpredictable budgets, the resources required to sustain a competitive doctoral program are no longer available for this purpose. The program will plan to be closed in ways that ensure the support needed for current students to complete their degrees and is consistent with Virginia Tech and State Council on Higher Education (SCHEV) guidelines and procedures...
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    Seth Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social

    U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"

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