A lot of the problems in the humanities are shared to a lesser degree across most university departments, \u201c\u2026 especially palpable in California, where the UC and CSU systems have only intensified their corporatism under continued funding cutbacks from the state\u201d (Grusin). The budget cuts have several problems. First, it raises the cost of education for the students. If a student is going to end up carrying $50,000 or more of student loan debt for a degree that might only earn them $30,000. They might be tempted to look at a career path that might not be what they are truly interested in, but something that will pay the bills. This also focuses departments to focus too much on the bottom line, looking to programs that show immediate payoffs. The problem is quite often discoveries often come from projects that show no obvious or at least immediate payoffs. Higher education must remain the last bastion of pure research, weather its physics or the humanities. There needs to be funding for discovery, for discoveries sake.<\/p>\n
Digital Humanities can try to prevent the increase of corporatization by perhaps being more selective on who underwrites their project. I don\u2019t think corporatization in and of itself is a dark force in the humanities or any field. Sometimes companies would be happy to provide equipment or money just for the cache of being seen as a friend to higher education. That is fine. It\u2019s when they want that research to have real world applications that DH needs to take a long hard look at if it\u2019s really in their, the university, or DH\u2019s best interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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