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With the beginning of March, we are gearing up for the 2023 NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day–the first to be held in person since 2020. We have much to celebrate in looking back at the past year, including the largest yearly increase for the NEH ever and the…

The statements below are available on the NCA Anti-Racism Resource Bank, along with other statements related to recent events.  More than a year ago (March 19, 2020), in the early phases of the pandemic’s spread in the United States, the National Communication Association (NCA) published a statement “to amplify the…

In January, NCA signed on to a statement from the American Council of Learned Societies urging the Kansas Board of Regents “to withdraw its endorsement of the proposed policy to ease the path to suspending, dismissing, or terminating employees, including tenured faculty members, without undertaking the processes of formally declaring a…

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many humanists set out to document the quickly worsening global health crisis. As the months progressed, a summer fueled by national protests against police violence and immigrant detention made apparent the overlapping social consequences of public health disparities and racial injustice amidst the…

NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day | March 8-10 The National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day will be held virtually March 8-10, 2021. The NHA Annual Meeting includes programming on recruiting undergraduates, promoting publicly engaged work, and much more! On March 10, during Humanities Advocacy Day,…

In October, NCA signed on to a statement from Maria Lapinski, Director of the Health and Risk Communication Center at Michigan State University, opposing President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization during the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement reads, in part: “At a time when…