ACLS News

• ACLS Statement Urging Kansas Board of Regents to Uphold Employment Protections for Faculty

  01/26/2021

  ACLS urges the Kansas Board of Regents to withdraw its endorsement of the proposed policy to ease the path to suspending, dismissing, or terminating employees, including tenured faculty members, without undertaking the processes of formally declaring a financial emergency. 
   

  
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• Forward-Looking Philanthropy: A Virtual Conversation Among Funders and Black Scholars

  01/19/2021

  • Please join ACLS for a virtual roundtable discussion on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, at 4 PM EST.

  
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• ACLS President Joy Connolly's Community Message for January 2021

  01/12/2021

  Reflecting on the importance of maintaining the ties that bind.

  
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• ACLS Welcomes New Additions to Program Team

  01/12/2021

  ACLS is pleased to announce three key new hires to support its evolving portfolio of programs supporting the development and circulation of humanistic scholarship.

  
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• ACLS Names Second Cohort of Leading Edge Fellows to Advance COVID-19 Response Initiatives

  01/07/2021

  Luce Foundation-Funded Program Partners Early-Career Scholars of Ethics and Religion with Nonprofit Organizations for Year-Long Projects
   

  
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• ACLS Member Societies Speak to Wall Street Journal On Pauses in PhD Admissions

  12/30/2020

  ACLS member societies quoted in Decemer 29, 2020 Wall Street Journal story on pauses in PhD admissions.

  
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• Event Highlights: How Do We Get There? Accelerating Diversity in Slow-To-Change Humanities Fields

  12/23/2020

  On Thursday, December 17, 2020, the American Council of Learned Societies presented the latest event in its Humanistic Knowledge in the 21^st Century series, “How Do We Get There? Accelerating Diversity in Slow-To-Change Humanities Fields.” A global audience of close to 400 people logged in to this Zoom event to hear a candid discourse exploring the history, current state, and solutions addressing humanities fields that, despite years of institutional efforts in diversity, remain mostly white and male. 

  
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• An Important Reminder of the Urgency to Uphold the Central Role of Humanistic Study In Higher Education

  12/11/2020

  University of Vermont proposal to cut 12 majors and 11 minors in the College of Arts and Sciences serves as an important reminder to double down on our commitment as a community to do all we can to uphold the central role of humanistic study in higher education.

  
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• Interrupting Privilege by Ralina L. Joseph F’19: Bringing Seattle’s Community Together for Intergenerational Anti-Racist Workshops

  12/09/2020

  Through Interrupting Privilege, an anti-racist workshop led by Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellow Ralina L. Joseph F’19, community members gather at the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) for dialogue-based workshops on addressing and combatting racism.

  
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• Leonard Cassuto Speaks With ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows About Navigating the Academic Job Market

  12/09/2020

  In August, Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University, spoke with early career scholars as part of an exclusive virtual event for ACLS fellows.

  
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