Canada needs the arts, with its insights into human behaviour and thinking, more than ever. But governments and funding agencies should shift funding models for arts graduate education.
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To address declining humanities enrolments, these programs should ensure they offer more than critical theory for identifying and analyzing problems.
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As we observe with the war in Ukraine, humanities skills are crucial for understanding 21st-century problems.
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Professor of Philosophy, Director of The/La Collaborative, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of German and Nordic Studies, University of British Columbia
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Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary
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Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
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Executive Director, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan
