This article supports Bérubé's conclusion regarding the intellectual health of humanities scholarship. However, it argues that the case of "contingent faculty"--or academics with short-term or casual contracts--is in many respects different in Australia to the situation he outlines for the US. Whilst a variety of funding pressures have…

Academics can be too snug in their institutional silos. They sometimes think of one another as competitors for students, and as a result they duplicate scarce resources in mutually damaging ways. In this article, the author wants to argue that teaching-focused institutions have much to gain from partnerships with research universities on the…

Bryant Griffith is a Regents Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Director of the Curriculum and Instruction Doctoral Program. Previously, he was Professor and Director of the School of Education at Acadia University, and Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Calgary. His research interests include situated…

On 28 November 2006 Russia observes the one-hundredth anniversary of Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev. By an edict of President V.V. Putin 2006 has been designated the year of D.S. Likhachev. A scientist of encyclopedic scope and a renowned researcher into Old Russian literature, Academician Likhachev became, starting in the second half of the 1980s,…

An overview of mentoring (including culture- and gender-neutral suggestions for all mentors and mentees) offers advice on guiding graduate students and young faculty in the humanities through the shoals of preparation for, and then work (mostly teaching) in, academe. Author sees mentoring as a pragmatic and altruistic "not a normative" activity,…

In spite of criticism and public opinion, the liberal arts are practical and still the important core of curriculums. Many work skills developed and nurtured by the humanities are discussed as necessary for occupational success. The revival of the humanities is shown to depend on liberal arts educators. (Author/CM)