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• Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities (Social Science Space blog, 6/20/11) 
• Threats to the Liberal Arts Worry Scholars in the Humanities (CHE, 5/8/11)
• ASU Provost on Importance of Humanities (ArizRepub, 2/5/11)
• In Defense of Electives (Edelstein, IHE, 1/21/11)
• Hard Times Focus MLA's Lens on Labor and the Humanities (CHE 1/9/11)
• History Jobs in Freefall, Econ Bounces Back (IHE 1/3/11)
• The Death of Universities (Eagleton, Guardian, 12/18/10)
• Languages Losing Out in Budget Cutting (NYT, 12/5/10)
• How the Humanities (Pears, 11/10/10)
• Humanities and the Good Life (Soper, Guardian, 11/30/10)
• SUNY's Faustian Bargain (Petsko, 11/10/10)
• Why Humanities: Birkbeck Conference (11/5/10)
• Cornell President Calls for National Campaign in Defense of the Humanities (IHE, 11/1/10)
• SUNY Under Seige Website
• End Game for UK Humanities (McQuillan, London Grad School Oct 2010)
• Do Colleges Need French Departments? (Debate, NYT 10/18/10)
• SUNY. Albany Eliminating Several Language Programs (IHE, 10/4/10)
• Story of Humanities Decline Overstated (IHE, 10/1/10)
• In UK Humanities Degrees Increasingly the Preserve of the Wealthy (Guardian, 9/26/10)
• "The End of Tenure?" (NYT, 9/3/10)
• The Declining Rate of Educational Achievement (Herbert, NYT, 8/6/10)
• Education for Workers about More than the Economic (IHE, 8/6/10)
• More on the Consolidation of the Humanities at Toronto (Torontoist, 7/9/10)
• When Drug Companies Write Articles For Professors (CHE, 7/19/10)
• Toronto East Asian Studies Faculty on Literature Reorganization (7/10)
• Arizona State President Tries to Redesign the University (IHE, 7/16/10)
• U Toronto Plans to Shut Center for Comparative Literature (Globe and Mail 7/13/10)
• Study Aborad Improves Educational Outcomes, Including Those of At-Risk Students (IHE 7/13/10)
• Majoring in English at the U of Phoenix
• Middlesex Philosophy Center Survives by Moving to Kingston U (Guardian 6/10/10)
• Tennessee Bob Fights Language Dept Closures Around US (CHE 5/23/10)
• Stop Mourning the Humanities (CHE, 6/1/1/10)
• The Unintended Impact of the Humanities (CHE/5/23/10)
• This Story Concerns You: Reflections on Middlesex (Unemployed Negativity 5/5/10)
• Middlesex U (UK) Suspends Profs and Students for Protesting Closure of Philosophy Dept (5/21/10)
• Middlesex U (UK) Occupation to Save Philosophy Ended by Judge (5/14/10)
• List of Essential Capabilities (Wesleyan U 2005)
• UK Universities Move to Close Philosophy Departments Because They Aren't Profitable Enough (UniversitiesInCrisis, 5/4/10)
• Brown Considers Changing Tenure Process; Giving Administrators More Say (IHE, 4/27/10)
• Southern Cal Social Work Goes Online (IHE, 4/22/10)
• A Passion for Truth (Nussbaum, TNR 4/1/10)
• A "Third Way" For Liberal Education? (IHE, 3/30/10)
• The Humanities More Than Pay for Themselves (CHE, 3/21/10)
• Novelist Iain Pears: King's College Guts Humanities to Grow Admin (3/10)
• Cuts to Humanities at King's College London
• Are Universities Killing Interpretation? (IHE, 2/12/10)
• "The Two Cultures Revisited" (TownsendCenterNewsL)
• Protests on LGBT and Labor Issues at AHA (IHE, 1/11/10)
• Historians Face Future but what about Jobs? (IHE, 1/11/10)
• The Humanities: Beyond The Critical (CHE, 1/3/10))
• Hum Grad School: Just Don't Go (CHE 1/30/09
• "Dodging the Anvil": The Future of the Job Market (CHE, 1/4/10)
• New PhDs Sit Out MLA Convention (IHE Jan 4)
• Academic Jobs: History Down 24%, Econ Minus 19% (IHE Jan 4)
• Carnegie Mellon Project on Digital-Hybrid Education: Whither the Professor? (IHE, Dec.28)
• The Absent Presence: Today's Faculty (Brian Croxall, MLA Paper)
• Literature Jobs Fall 50% Over 2 Years (IHE Dec 17)
• UK Humanities Under Assault (TLS Nov 13)
• Public Spectres (Shannon Jackson, UCB)
• Literature Jobs Fall 50% Over 2 Years (IHE Dec 17)