Please Sign this Petition to Save Humanities Departments at Montclair State !

Montclair State University is planning to eliminate all of its Humanities Departments. This short-sighted action makes it more difficult for students who attend Montclair State to attain a broad and deep understanding of themselves and the world around them through the study of the Humanities. It defunds and otherwise hampers faculty members who teach subjects in the Humanities. 

The move undervalues and marginalizes Humanities education as an intrinsic good which enables students to reason logically from evidence, think critically, and speak and write clearly and effectively. Humanities education trains students to distinguish truth from lie, reality from fiction, right from wrong, just from unjust, public from private good, democracy from autocracy, and constitutionality from lawlessness and violent chaos. The study of the Humanities cultivates humane emotions in ways other disciplines do not. It should not surprise anyone that the basic capacities of educated people are in such short supply today.

We ask you to sign the petition and to pass it on to whoever you think would be interested in signing it too 

The UMBC Ancient Studies Department