CFP: CFP: "Saving the Humanities from the Neoliberal University"
Submission deadline: March 15, 2017
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Dear Colleagues,
Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities) is currently running a Special Issue "Saving the Humanities from the Neoliberal University" of which is guest edited by Prof. Dr. Ronald Strickland of the Michigan Technological University.
There have always been tensions between the “vocational” and “humanistic” missions of higher education, but there are some distinctive characteristics of the ongoing “crisis” of the Humanities in what I am calling the “neoliberal university.” As Bill Readings argued in The University in Ruins, higher education’s traditional “Humboldtian” role of producing citizens and leaders for a national society is being overwhelmed by a market-oriented model that functions, directly and indirectly, to serve global business interests. This development is sometimes represented as a democratic response to student demand for training that will lead to secure careers, and as an appropriately cosmopolitan response to a world shrunk by technological advances in communication… For further reading, please visit the Special Issue website http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/neoliberal_university
The submission deadline 15 March 2017.
We cordially invite you to contribute to this volume. If you have any questions, please contact the Assistant Editor Ms. Jie Gu ([email protected]).
When your paper is ready, please submit it through the following link:
http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=humanities
On behalf of the editorial team,
Kind regards,
Jie Gu
Senior Assistant Editor
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Ms. Jie Gu
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
Humanities Editorial Office
Tel. + 86 10 81521170
E-mail: [email protected]
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