by Jon Lackman | 14 October 2010 | Career
I don’t have any data yet on how this year’s job market in art history is shaping up. Good-looking positions have been advertised at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Stanford, Berkeley, Chicago, SAIC, USC, BU, Rice, Mt. Holyoke, and Reed, among other places. Follow the progress of those searches over at the Art History 2010-11 rumor mill. Of course, even if job postings go up this year, there’s a backlog of candidates from last year’s dismal market, plus a possible surge of ABDs who’ve lost funding.
Meanwhile, Stanley Fish laments “Oct. 1, when George M. Philip, president of SUNY Albany, announced that the French, Italian, classics, Russian and theater programs were getting the axe”:
What, then, can be done? … What can you say to the tax-payer who asks, “What good does a program in Byzantine art do me?” Nothing. … The only thing that might fly — and I’m hardly optimistic — is politics, by which I mean the political efforts of senior academic administrators to explain and defend the core enterprise to those constituencies — legislatures, boards of trustees, alumni, parents and others — that have either let bad educational things happen or have actively connived in them.
In the UK, according to Times Higher Education, a new government report is recommending “Public investment to be targeted at clinical medicine, nursing, science, technology and modern languages” and “The government to be given scope to withdraw public funding from all but “priority” subjects, with teaching funding for the arts and humanities likely to be axed.”
The “rumor mill” link appears to be broken.
Karen
Fixed it, thanks.
So frustrating!!!