7 Celebrity Professors Teaching At The UK's New College Of The Humanities

The controversial and incredibly expensive (at least for British standards) New College of the Humanities has lined up an imposing array of academics to instruct their prospective students. If, of course, they actually teach there.

The Wall Street Journal had this to say about all the hand-wringing:

At Crooked Timber, Daniel Davies notes that much of the coverage has focused on the luminaries associated with the college: “But, sharp cookies will have noted, none of them appear to have resigned from their existing posts or given any notice that they intend to do so.” As a result, “I would guess that the teaching will also come from the middle ranks of the British academic proleteriat.”

Ahh, well. We will have to see.

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The British philosopher, author and professor is the founder and master of the New College of the Humanities. "Society needs us to be thoughtful voters, good neighbours, loving parents and responsible citizens," Grayling told the Guardian. "If we are to discover and inspire the next generation of lawyers, journalists, financiers, politicians, civil servants, writers, artists and teachers, we need to educate to the highest standards and with imagination, breadth and depth."

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The British philosopher, author and professor is the founder and master of the New College of the Humanities. "Society needs us to be thoughtful voters, good neighbours, loving parents and responsible citizens," Grayling told the Guardian. "If we are to discover and inspire the next generation of lawyers, journalists, financiers, politicians, civil servants, writers, artists and teachers, we need to educate to the highest standards and with imagination, breadth and depth."

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[phmeek]

05:47 PM on 06/29/2011

How can the College properly teach "humanities" when any mention of religion is absent? Professors Hitchens and Pinker, to name just two of the proposed faculty, are biased in a way that would exclude them from serious academic consideration were their prejudices directed against any other field of human experience, scholarship, and study. It is not religion but ignorance of religion, not belief but the belittling of belief, that lie at the heart of so much of the world's dysfunctions. Failure to include the disciplined study of religious beliefs, history, traditions, theologies and practices necessarily results in a body of students whose view of the world is dangerously skewed.

[MMMMarilyn]

01:21 AM on 06/09/2011

won't James Franco be teaching in Texas?
RAHR!

[UniversalStop]

09:22 AM on 06/08/2011

Sign me up. I never thought I'd want to go back to school, but I've been proven wrong.

[justkeepswimming]

11:31 PM on 06/07/2011

Old white guys much?

[Vanadesse 1067]

12:42 PM on 06/07/2011

According to the BBC, this college will roughly cost about $30,000 a year to attend. This cost is for both UK and International students. As far as that goes it is relatively inexpensive compared to the colleges in the US. Harvard $37,000/ Yale $38,000/Notre Dame $39,000 according to http://www.howtogetin.com/. I would love to study abroad in the UK.

[librarianesque]

05:51 PM on 06/07/2011

i went to graduate school in the united kingdom, and usually, international students pay two to three times the base tuition that 'home' students do. so i'm glad to see there is a level of fee equality at this 'new school' though with the exchange rate and cost of living it is generally exorbitant anyway. there are rarely any scholarships or fin aid available for overseas students as most british unis aren't as well financed, especially with recent government budget cuts. seems like a very admirable venture, but i would like to learn more about it before establishing an opinion. i think that a problem in the uk is the lack of diversity in higher education and these are all caucasian, males. i am certainly not knocking their intelligence, achievements or contributions, but for all of their 'british reserve and tolerance' this open-minded approach and appreciation for institutional diversity and multiculturalism is something we do much better than our dear cousins across the pond.

[RiverWalker]

08:11 PM on 06/07/2011

Interesting observation! The US, despite its detractors inside and outside, is the most culturally advanced country in the world. Others talk about it, but we are accomplishing it no matter the road blocks. Those who fear diversity should be aware that most other places in the world trail us in most ways primarily because of their lack of diversity and all that it entails. White people who are afraid of minorities have no idea how signifiant it is to them, their freedoms and their opportunities, to have Barack Obama as President. We make mistakes, but despots and closed cultures are disarmed by the successes of our democracy. We floored them by his election, and astounded them with his intelligence. For the people of the World, the election of Barack Obama is one of the most significant events of history. I don't think we fully appreciate it yet.

[Jo Le Tiel]

11:20 PM on 06/07/2011

I noticed the "lack of diversity," too. They all look like the type of prof. who has groupies, too.

[Yorksgal]

11:52 AM on 06/07/2011

Sounds like a great place to attend.

Some students are going to be very lucky to have these profs.