The Collapse of English Lit at Columbia
Posted By: Hazymac, 8/22/2019 12:21:10 PM
Scenes from the higher education apocalypse: I don’t know whether Columbia University’s graduate program in English literature is as premier in the field as it was back in the glory days of Lionel Trilling, but yesterday the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this: Columbia Had Little Success Placing English Ph.Ds on Tenure Track. “Alarm” Followed, and the University Responded The story is unfortunately behind the Chronicle‘s paywall, but when you get into the story it turns out the headline is misleading: It should read “No Success” rather than “Little Success,” because the number of Columbia English Ph.Ds placed in tenure-tracked jobs this year was Zero.
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This LDotter was an English major. Other majors led to more lucrative fields of endeavor, but to me proper language, the lingua franca of clear communication, is sacred.