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This newsletter was written and compiled by Stacy Hartman and Treviene Harris.
Explore case studies for change in higher education from our community.
The New Academy discussion group is a confidential space for faculty, department heads, and administrators to share ideas and resources with a community of change-minded peers. The Building Blocks for a New Academy newsletter provides quarterly updates from this growing community.
ACLS is working with the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Society of Biblical Literature on Doctoral Futures: an initiative to assess and reimagine humanities graduate education to better prepare the next generation of knowledge producers.
Anonymous, peer-to-peer advice. This month: a humanities department chair asks how to get reluctant faculty engaged in proactive change.
Create a 2025 BINGO card representing intentional actions you want to take this year to work toward a more humane academy.
Stacy Hartman shares an article in the LA Review of Books that features Building Blocks for a New Academy.
ACLS will spearhead a three-year effort to assess and reform humanities graduate education through “Graduate Education in the Humanities: A National Convening.”
Stacy Hartman shares examples of how deans have successfully used their unique positions to affect change at both the curricular and policy levels.
Dean L. Lynn Vidler calls for a shift in how higher education approaches leadership.
Deans Jeffrey Cohen, Sara Guyer, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz share how they are strengthening the position of humanities faculty at their institutions.
Graduate School Dean Celia Marshik shares how the lessons she took from LINA helped her make a compelling case for including the humanities in interdisciplinary conversations about climate research.
How do we make space for undergraduates to experience genuine interdisciplinary collaboration within the disciplinary structures of the academy?
The Rutgers-Newark Chancellor shared her talk “Taking an Outside-In Perspective on a Forward-Looking Academy” at the 2023 LINA Summer Institute.
Stacy Hartman: “What Can Undergraduate Innovation Teach Graduate Programs?” What if we took something else entirely as the starting point for designing doctoral programs?
Anonymous, peer-to-peer advice. This month: a humanities department chair asks how to get reluctant faculty engaged in proactive change.
Create a 2025 BINGO card representing intentional actions you want to take this year to work toward a more humane academy.
Stacy Hartman shares an article in the LA Review of Books that features Building Blocks for a New Academy.
ACLS will spearhead a three-year effort to assess and reform humanities graduate education through “Graduate Education in the Humanities: A National Convening.”
Stacy Hartman shares examples of how deans have successfully used their unique positions to affect change at both the curricular and policy levels.
Dean L. Lynn Vidler calls for a shift in how higher education approaches leadership.
Deans Jeffrey Cohen, Sara Guyer, and Rebecca L. Walkowitz share how they are strengthening the position of humanities faculty at their institutions.
Graduate School Dean Celia Marshik shares how the lessons she took from LINA helped her make a compelling case for including the humanities in interdisciplinary conversations about climate research.
How do we make space for undergraduates to experience genuine interdisciplinary collaboration within the disciplinary structures of the academy?
The Rutgers-Newark Chancellor shared her talk “Taking an Outside-In Perspective on a Forward-Looking Academy” at the 2023 LINA Summer Institute.
Stacy Hartman: “What Can Undergraduate Innovation Teach Graduate Programs?” What if we took something else entirely as the starting point for designing doctoral programs?
Explore past editions of Ask LINA.
How can a dean develop authentic vision and strategy in collaboration with faculty?
How directors can use the summer to advance institution-building work
Keeping long-term goals on track in the midst of crises and administrative turnover.
What to do about Professor Grump?
