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Higher education in Australia is in a period of crisis and transition. While COVID-related events and their impacts have made it difficult for all areas of university academic endeavour, among the hardest hit have been humanities. Drawing on live interviews with professors in a range of humanities disciplines, the paper elucidates various elements of the crisis, which includes a summary of the impacts of the last three decades' rise in neoliberalist imperatives within the university sector. The paper then argues that a robust defence of the humanities needs to be made and uses literary studies as its focus. Today, we are more in need of the humanities than ever. But this is a complex undertaking as research in higher education and live interviews reveal; the dictates of measurement, accountability, and questions of value within the humanities remain vexed; and while the aims and requirements of humanities studies may be at odds with neoliberalist demands and corporatisation, the humanities themselves may also be contributing to their own demise. Therefore, I offer future directions: I argue for the urgent need for the humanities to reinvigorate their ethical and critical functions, the need to demonstrate the connections between the humanities and wellbeing, the imperative to slow down and to eradicate the over-casualisation of academia, and the necessity for the humanities to articulate more clearly their connections with employment outcomes for a dynamic and evolving future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The status of French as a language has improved to some extent in recent years as a result of the exchange and blending of cultures from various nations. Each language, including French, must undergo a protracted process in order to become more widely spoken. It is essential to develop top-notch French interpreters in order to lower the barriers preventing cross-border communication. The teaching of French interpretation has recently received more attention in many colleges, but the issue of a single teaching method has long persisted. In recent years, a new approach to teaching the liberal arts has emerged. Its main goal is to implement comprehensive interdisciplinary teaching by fusing contemporary information technology with traditional liberal arts instruction. This paper conducted a cutting-edge study on the teaching method of French interpretation against the backdrop of the new liberal arts in order to alter the teaching strategy and increase teaching effectiveness. In this paper, an intelligent interpretation teaching system was constructed using information technology. Through text classification algorithms, it incorporated and optimized teaching resources. According to the experimental findings, the teaching process was optimized, and the teaching efficiency increased by 7.94% when French interpretation was taught against a backdrop of new liberal arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using statistical data, scholarly research, institutional models from higher education, and highlighting key personages from the academy and the business world, we argue that including Buddhism-related content into the general education of students can offer a powerful avenue of reform for the humanities in American universities. The article shows how humanities-based skills are becoming more desirable in today's business environment, and demonstrates how the skills that Buddhist Studies—and religion more broadly—provide are consistent with those needed in today's global and integrated technological world. Utilizing the Universities of Harvard and Arizona to help frame the discussion, the paper outlines the history of the American general education system, the ongoing crisis in the humanities, how Buddhism fits within the humanities viz. religion, and specific ways to implement Buddhism-related content into the academy domestically and internationally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]