{"title":"De Senectute: Cicero's Advice on Saving Classics Departments","authors":"J. Moss","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0024","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Classics, along with other subjects in the Humanities, is under threat in American universities because of declining enrollments. Some of the drop can be blamed on the current emphasis on STEM as students' best option to secure their future. There is generally, though, a major demographic shift: there are simply few college-age (18-25) students than there once were. This article uses ideas captured from Cicero's de Senectute to suggest that college humanities departments create programs for retirees and senior citizens that could leverage the much larger numbers of this demographic group to bolster enrollments while enriching all students' learning experience.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL WORLD","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0024","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:Classics, along with other subjects in the Humanities, is under threat in American universities because of declining enrollments. Some of the drop can be blamed on the current emphasis on STEM as students' best option to secure their future. There is generally, though, a major demographic shift: there are simply few college-age (18-25) students than there once were. This article uses ideas captured from Cicero's de Senectute to suggest that college humanities departments create programs for retirees and senior citizens that could leverage the much larger numbers of this demographic group to bolster enrollments while enriching all students' learning experience.
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Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter (December-February), Spring (March-May), and Summer (June-August) issues. Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society.
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