Understanding possible global impacts upon Australian universities

Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office
18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109
AUSTRALIA

14 March 2025

Re: Following on from the previous email about Nicholas B. Dirks’ thinking.

Dear Vice-Chancellors,

Another informative article from Nicholas B. Dirks. Following the email below, at the bottom of this blog.

Remember my name when the job applications come across your desk.

Here is a picture of a poor Australians’ fridge

Is this what we want as an Australian society? That the top scholars in the humanities have not been paid for their critical thinking work?

This is not an attempt at guilt. That’s your confusion. It was what Bernard Williams talked about in his book, Shame and Necessity.

It is what the public says in the public marketplace of ideas, “Have you no shame?”

Kind regards,

Neville Buch
Historian,

Professional Historians Australia (Queensland)

Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES)

Convenor, Sociology of Education Thematic Group, The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).

Director, Brisbane Southside History Network (BSHN).

MPHA (Qld), Ph.D. (History) UQ., Grad. Dip. Arts (Philosophy) Melb., Grad. Dip. (Education) UQ.

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First Email to Vice-Chancellors on 14 March 2025

Dear Vice-Chancellors,

This THE article was composed by Nicholas B. Dirks, who is president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences and author of the recent book, City of Intellect: The Uses and Abuses of the University (Cambridge: 2023).

The current trend in the United States may or may not have happened in Australia, but you need to understand what is happening.

THE article can be found here at this link.

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Kind regards,

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Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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