Advocacy Articles and Resources

These articles and websites provide further arguments in favor of the humanities and may act as an informational toolkit for those who are seeking to defend or establish programs in language and literature.

Article/Resource	Source	Author	Date of publication
Advocating for Your Department: Forum Presentation at PAMLA 2011	Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association	Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer, Iowa State University	November 5, 2011
Save University Arts from the Bean Counters	Nature	Gregory Petsko, Brandeis University	December 22, 2010
CIA Chief Leon Panetta, Federal Officials Urge Scholars to Help Improve Foreign Language Learning in the U.S.	Diverse	Jamaal Abdul-Alim	December 9, 2010
Getting Their Babel On	Inside Higher Ed	Dan Berrett	December 8, 2010
Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2009	Modern Language Association (MLA)	Nelly Furman, David Goldberg, and Natalia Lusin	December 8, 2010
MLA Language Enrollment Database, 1958–2009	Modern Language Association (MLA)		December 8, 2010
Foreign Language for Foreign Policy?	Inside Higher Ed	Russell A. Berman, First Vice President of Modern Language Association	November 23, 2010
Where in the World Are Languages?	Huffington Post	Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of Modern Language Association	November 22, 2010
The World Beyond Reach	Chronicle of Higher Education	Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of Modern Language Association	November 7, 2010
4Humanities: Advocating for the Humanities	Web	Digital Humanities Scholars	November 6, 2010
A Faustian Bargain	Genome Biology	Gregory A. Petsko, Brandeis University	October 31, 2010
The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit	Chronicle of Higher Education	Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles	March 21, 2010
ADFL Tool Kit for Formulating Arguments in Defense of Departments Facing Closure of Language Programs	Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Website	Association of Departments of Foreign Languages	January 1, 2009