Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)

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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)

Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)

@rbthisted

Director, @AmericanAcad's humanities, arts, and culture programs; Humanities Indicators (https://t.co/oskRdC7YrU); and D.C. office. Quotes and RTs ≠ opinions.

Washington, D.C. Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
“We help students connect the dots between humanities disciplines like philosophy, literature, and communication, on the one hand, and community-engaged work, professional development, and job-readiness, on the other.” bit.ly/4sJdIIb
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"in a university where structural and economic pressures often push students in more predictable directions, choosing to remain in the humanities can itself feel like a form of resistance, both intellectually and personally." bit.ly/414NLHk
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"these developments in education roll over the American society and embrace us without resistance. STEM education might tell us what we are, but it is the humanities that tell us, and others, who we are and what is in our souls." bit.ly/3NpqI6O
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“In an environment where they are spending hours every day training their mind to be highly distracted, is it any wonder they struggle with the long cross-country run that reading a novel requires?”: bit.ly/4s6h4Fw
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
“While a BA in history is an unlikely starting point for where I’ve ended up, the core values of inquiry, challenging assumptions, and supporting your arguments with evidence is a good place to come from for many roles” bit.ly/4kYNHCf
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"even the economic piece of this argument is not borne out by the data. Recent research from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences shows strong state-by-state employment trends for humanities graduates" bit.ly/3OFLHTd
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
"The humanities and their application serve to contextualize facts, data, and studies.... With that, I implore you to not only take an arts or creative humanities class, but to take it seriously." bit.ly/4aLNQp3
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"More than half of artists reported being somewhat or very worried about at least one form of financial vulnerability—such as affording food, housing, medical care, or utilities—and more than one-third reported using some form of public assistance." bit.ly/46I0bYQ
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
"We keep saying we want young people to lead, newcomers to feel at home, neighbors to trust each other across differences. Public humanities are how we make those promises real...they are, concretely, part of the operating system of self-government." bit.ly/4ksHaiN
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
"Rather than abandoning the study of humanities entirely for AI, it might be better to evolve skillsets to meet market needs. A mix of AI engineers plus humanities experts is a far better combination than relying on the tech alone." bit.ly/4aqerXp
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
"AI still cannot adequately cover the unique domain of "critical thinking" that belongs to the humanities...the issue lies...with whether humanists possess the courage and capability to shoulder the responsibilities of the era and confront its challenges." bit.ly/3Zvb3p8
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Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social)
Study of AI policies in syllabi finds #humanities "adopting the most restrictive policies in 2023 and remaining the most restrictive through Fall 2025....Business courses are 43 percentage points less likely than Humanities courses to be fully restrictive" bit.ly/3ZEkBhP
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"The humanities respond by inviting essential insight about what matters in life, how to sustain civic culture and safeguard democracy, and what it will take to build a secure, free, and prosperous future for the planet." bit.ly/3ZiKWSb
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"One department that mostly prohibits AI across the board is the history department. It bans AI as a “text-generation tool” and for editing. Furthermore, AI is explicitly not allowed as a brainstorming tool for the department’s independent work" bit.ly/46gDmva
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