American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The number of bachelor's degrees awarded in humanities is down 30% since 2012.

That's according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jason Fox is the Chief Academic Officer at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.

He taught graphic design at SCAD before that.

She's the author of six poetry collections, including most recently, Other Where: New and Selected Poems 1976-2026, and a memoir, What You Have Heard Is True.

She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Wyndham Campbell Prize, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for Distinguished Literary Achievement.

Carolyn, welcome.

Thanks for joining me.

Today on Human Centered, a conversation with David Layton, the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2021 he was the recipient of the Johann Schütte Prize, considered by many to be the Nobel Prize equivalent for political scientists.

And, notably for us, he was a CASBUS Fellow in 1999-2000.

I think schlub is the better word.

Uh, actually, I was in Boston, where at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last night, we did a, uh, screening of the documentary we've done on debate, Immutable.

Go to pbs.org or immutablefilm.com to screen it.

And it was on urban debate, and we did a panel afterwards, uh, moderated by the wonderful, uh, uh, former... uh, a wonderful former judge, uh, Nancy Gertner, uh, now teaching at Harvard Law School, and including one of our star former debaters, now a senior at Harvard, uh, Leev Bernstadt; Will Baker, who, uh, uh, runs the debate program at NYU; and Charlie Sadoff, uh, who is, uh, one of the producers of this film that our foundation spearheaded.

It is an asteraceous plant with showy daisy-like flowers.

In reporting this find to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Asa Gray described it as the most interesting and apparently the only new species of an extensive and truly valuable collection made by Mr. Muir in a recent searching cruise which he accompanied and which extended to Wrangel Island.

Wrangle Land.

The plant seems to have been abundant, for it occurs in the collection under three numbers." End quote.