{"id":8631,"date":"2018-10-15T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2018-10-17T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:06:05","slug":"english-prof-robert-cowgill-remains-hopeful-future-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/15\/english-prof-robert-cowgill-remains-hopeful-future-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"English prof Robert Cowgill remains hopeful about the future of Liberal Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8642\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/ows_15368792886293.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8642\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/ows_15368792886293-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"English major Connor Doebbert shaking hands with Prof. George Dierberger at Augsburg's 2017 spring commencement.\" width=\"248\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/ows_15368792886293-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/10\/ows_15368792886293.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">English major Connor Doebbert shaking hands with Prof. George Dierberger at Augsburg&#8217;s 2017 spring commencement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The notable preference for\u00a0STEM programs has negatively affected\u00a0the number of English majors in the United States. Retired English professor Madelon Sprengnether\u00a0from the University\u00a0of Minnesota paid close attention to the\u00a0numbers. Sprengnether\u00a0reached out to\u00a0her former student, professor Robert Cowgill, chair of the Department of English at Augsburg University to discuss\u00a0why\u00a0English (and other humanities disciplines) still hold appeal.\u00a0\u201cAs I age, I see us all as a circle of writers and teachers in this city who have kept a certain flame of sensibility alive in our students,&#8221; Cowgill said. &#8220;I think we matter. What we keep alive matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/not-the-worst-of-times-for-english-and-the-liberal-arts\/493201301\/\">See full article at the Star Tribune website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The notable preference for\u00a0STEM programs has negatively affected\u00a0the number of English majors in the United States. Retired English professor Madelon Sprengnether\u00a0from the University\u00a0of Minnesota paid close attention to the\u00a0numbers. Sprengnether\u00a0reached out to\u00a0her former student, professor Robert Cowgill, chair of the Department of English at Augsburg University to discuss\u00a0why\u00a0English (and other humanities disciplines) still hold &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}