What makes Rice special? Mix together a superb liberal arts college, a chunk of MIT or Caltech, a topmost school of music and an equally ranked school of architecture. Place it in 285 wooded acres surrounded by a major city with internationally recognized cultural institutions and a world-famous medical center. Add to it a residential college system and top-notch students and faculty. Rice is like itself. No other university really looks quite like us.
Drill deeply? Hear through the noise? These are highly effective metaphors, useful for understanding both data and poetry. And they also show that, with its insistence on interpretation, truths beyond facts, and lies that tell truths, humanistic study inevitably connects with everything humans do.
While national declines in humanistic studies are troublesome, the picture at Rice is more encouraging thanks to excellent programs that attract and retain stellar faculty and students.
Rice may be a small university, but its impact is large, and its reach is vast. The School of Humanities is proud to be a part of that reach, to offer the kind of programming that builds bridges, crosses boundaries and creates the enriched intellectual environment singular to collaborative efforts.
Rice may be a small university, but its impact is large, and its reach is vast. The School of Humanities is proud to be a part of that reach, to offer the kind of programming that builds bridges, crosses boundaries and creates the enriched intellectual environment singular to collaborative efforts.
The budget crisis in the humanities, particularly in public institutions, has reached proportions that as recently as 10 years ago would have been unthinkable.
After six years of exceptional service to Rice, Gary Wihl resigned as dean of humanities effective June 30, 2009.
Over the last six years, since the start of my appointment as Dean of Humanities, it has been my great pleasure to produce a newsletter for our alumni, faculty, and friends.
