I worked for hours on a draft that got lost due to some Internet freeze I don’t understand.
It’s a short memo and a lot of notes. I want to send ISP’s piece on saving the humanities to leadership, to accompany the other piece and my other request. It offers a different and more hopeful analysis of our situation than many of those we have seen, and some strategies for renewal that are highly relevant here.
When I hear discussions of the state of “languages” here I don’t see mine reflected, and when I hear in our defense that what we have to offer is skills training rather than knowledge and method, I despair.
I am not one of those who is included in decisions that affect my field here, but I am asked to recruit majors in a situation where administrative decisions work directly against it. I would like to have the conversation.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 