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Colleges deploy new strategies to revive English programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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University holds Holocaust remembrance event despite Jewish protests

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“We cannot imagine that the university would plan a program for Martin Luther King Jr. Day without intentionally consulting African American faculty and students,” says a redacted Jan. 9 resignation letter that says it’s from the planning committee’s three Jewish members. 9 resignation letter says.

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