Programs in Peril
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There is now an online petition: Save Palaeography at King’s College London Petition. Here’s the backstory: Cuts at King’s College London?
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An excerpt from Mary Beard’s latest: Now it is the turn of King’s College London – which is planning (very confidentially, so far) to lose up to 22 posts in Arts and Humanities by the end of the academic year. This means that at least one subject (which ought to be a protected species) will…
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Cleaning up some email, I came across this item from the Chicago Flame: Will the Classics Department survive?.
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In the wake of the threat to Classics at MSU, it has been brought to my attention that the Classics program at UMD College Park is also threatened, although to what extent at this point isn’t certain (merger with other departments is the current suggestion … maybe). From what I’ve been able to gather, UMD…
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This seems to be a developing story but it doesn’t seem to be getting as much attention as these things normally get, so … let’s begin with the incipit of a news release (full of the usual bureaucrateze) from MSU: As Michigan State University continues to shape its future and look for ways to reduce…
rogue classicism 