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Book SynopsisStrategic Shakespeare demonstrates the value of humanities-trained scholars as leaders in higher education. It features contributions from Renaissance and Shakespearean scholars, in leadership roles in North American higher education, who collectively aim to leverage traditional assumptions about Shakespeare in the service of a more inclusive and sustainable academy.
Making a powerful case for the liberal arts, the contributors demonstrate the ways in which training in the humanities creates a baseline of skills in collaboration, deep listening, tolerance for ambiguity and a range of positionalities, astute understanding of disparate data sets, persuasive storytelling, and commitment to liberal arts education. As this innovative collection showcases, these skills are crucial in the current climate, as higher education is struggling with declining enrolments; decreasing budgets; growing public distrust and (often) hostile legislative oversight; a rapidly shifting landsca
