Documents – Arts & Humanities Alliance

Study the Humanities, an initiative of the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, serves to strengthen humanities recruitment efforts across the country. There are three key components of the initiative:

Researching effective recruitment strategies and developing resources that showcase the range of approaches
Aggregating existing data and articles into a toolkit that presents six arguments for studying the humanities as an undergraduate
Convening the community of faculty and administrators committed to attracting more undergraduates to the humanities

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It has produced an excellent toolkit to help demonstrate the professional and personal value of studying the humanities to a variety of audiences Find out more

Study the Humanities has also produced two reports, which although focussed on the US are relevant to Humanities in the UK as well. These are:

Strategies for Recruiting Students to the Humanities: A Comprehensive Resource, aims to document and disseminate effective recruitment strategies to the humanities community. This 80-page resource highlights over 100 exemplary initiatives and elevates the voices of project directors and participating students. Find out more
Humanities Recruitment Survey: Challenges & Audiences, which presents quantitative data concerning the recruitment challenges faculty and administrators at a wide variety of institutions face and the audiences they are engaging to address those challenges. Find out more