Eric Adler on Language Studies & "Decolonizing the Curriculum"
The New Thinkery · The New Thinkery
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Show Notes
With the stock market tanking, Alex has fled the country to verify family artifacts are still in a vault in case we go back to bartering. Meanwhile, David and Greg have replaced him this week with The New Thinkery's most prolific guest, Eric Adler, professor of classics and chair of the department at the University of Maryland at College Park.
The trio discuss Adler's latest article, The Hypocrisy of English-Only 'Decolonization', diving more into the future of language studies and the humanities in higher ed as colleges and universities race to eliminate what are often key, but misunderstood, pieces of higher ed curriculua.