Winning a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities can take months of preparation and can require multiple attempts. So last year, when DOGE officials with no humanities experience yanked ...

After decades of dismissing liberal arts and humanities studies as useless and insisting that the mastery of science, ...

Colleges across America are beginning to prepare for graduation season, but in some corners of campus, you’re more likely to hear sounds of dread than of celebration. These are the humanities ...

Like a consumptive protagonist in a Victorian novel, the humanities have been dying for a long, long time. Earlier this week, James Pulizzi declared that English departments would soon be “extinct,” ...

The humanities are an often misunderstood group of majors. Because non-humanities degrees like nursing and business, for example, seem to have a more clear post-collegiate track, some may think that ...

Proponents of the liberal arts continue to claim that nothing is as relevant to long-term career success as a basic grounding in the humanities. And they can point to recent evidence showing that ...

As enrollment and reading decline, I asked Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy, what it was like to run a liberal arts ...

Aa landmark UNESCO report released this month finds that only one in five universities worldwide has a formal policy on ...

Since the Ronald Reagan era, we have heard arguments that studying liberal arts or the humanities is a waste of time or, at the very least, hardly the most sagacious path for college students to ...

This piece is part of The Daily’s “The Humanities in the 21st Century” series, running from April 7-11, 2014, which explores Stanford’s relationship with the humanities and the future of undergraduate ...