Historians are also talking about what we at CSID have been describing for a while vis. the humanities & the future of the university…
Life beyond the tenure track was a big topic. In a series of columns in the journal Perspectives and in The Chronicle, the group’s 2011 president, Anthony T. Grafton, and its executive director, Jim Grossman, have been urging graduate students and their departments to get over the idea that it’s a tenure-track job or failure. Why not consider public history, say, or a so-called alternative-academic career based in a university library or humanities center? Why not train graduate students to take better advantage of those opportunities?