ACLS Vice President James Shulman In the News

Recent media coverage on and writing by James Shulman.

Innovative Approaches to Cost Reduction: A Conversation with James Shulman
In this conversation, EdUp Provost host Dr. Gregor Thuswaldner and Dr. James Shulman, VP and COO of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and author of The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself discuss the pressing challenges facing higher education, particularly the financial pressures and the need for collaboration among institutions. 

World Humanities Report – Humanities in the United States
Humanities in the United States is part of the ambitious World Humanities Report project of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), in collaboration with the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH) and funded by the Mellon Foundation.
October 2024

World Humanities Report, directed by UC Berkeley’s Sara Guyer, warns of extinction risk to human knowledge
The ambitious report — complete as of today — was a six-year global effort that includes 10 recommendations for how to protect the humanities.
October 14, 2024

ACLS Vice President James Shulman on What’s Needed to Make Meaningful Change in Higher Education
“Colleges need to change. But can they? Inertia rules the day. New thinking could upend that.”
May 9, 2024

Forbes’ Editors’ Picks
“Some Of 2023’s Best Higher Education Books”
December 1, 2023

The Chronicle of Higher Education
“The Provost Files: When to Steal Good National Ideas”
“James L. Shulman uses his experience building ArtStor, a digital-image library, to explore how partnerships can provide both efficiencies and better products for American higher education… Shulman’s point is simple: Why should every college and university rely on local solutions rather than sharing ideas?” —George Justice, Provost, University of Tulsa
November 29, 2023

Future Trends Forum
“How intermediary organizations can help save higher education”
James Shulman joined host Bryan Alexander for a lively discussion on how some intermediary organizations can provoke pragmatic change in higher education.
October 26, 2023

Princeton University Press: Ideas
“What makes it so difficult for colleges to control costs?”
The fate of cumulative increases in college costs is playing out as predicted. Everyone agrees that it can’t continue to go on like this—and not just students and families.
October 14, 2023

James Shulman Discusses His New Book at New York City Event
The Synthetic University (Princeton University Press) argues for a mission-aligned approach to collective action in addressing the rising costs of higher education.
October 9, 2023

University World News
“How ‘synthetic’ solutions can help universities survive”
October 7, 2023

Stanford Social Innovation Review
“Change Resistance”
An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education.
September 19, 2023

ACLS Community Message for July 2023
Amplifying humanistic scholarship through open access book publishing.

Inside Higher Ed
“Recapturing American Higher Education’s Lost Promise”
July 27, 2023

The CNI Interviews Podcast
“Fostering and Sustaining Diverse Digital Scholarship”
May 1, 2023