TY - JOUR AU - Altbach, Philip PY - 2008/05/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Humanities and Social Sciences in Asia: Endangered Species? JF - International Higher Education JA - IHE VL - 0 IS - 52 SE - Global Issues DO - 10.6017/ihe.2008.52.8030 UR - https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/8030 SP - AB - The humanities and to a lesser extent the social sciences are in crisis in many East Asian universities. Several key challenges are evident: to improve the image of the soft sciences at every university; to provide capacity in a country to educate scholars at a high level in the various soft science disciplines (all universities of course need not offer a full range of specialties); to integrate the humanities and social sciences into interdisciplinary programs in professional and other fields; and to have capacity in these fields to contribute to general education. ER -