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After reading the article you linked, I skimmed the website of the Classical Studies organization. I saw an article on integrating transgender studies with the classics. This causes me to question: why not integrate gifted studies with the classics?!
It would be beneficial to affirm, validate, support, and protect invisible, overlooked gifted persons, for example, by including the study of gifted populations in Humanities, alongside other populations currently studied. Such efforts might increase cultural tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion of diverse, divergent, creative, out-of-the-box thinkers and thereby reduce or eliminate societal problems such as: 1) Misdiagnoses, alienation (SENG YouTube video) 2) Suicide, alienation - https://www.sengifted.org/post/seng-s-25th-anniversary-conference-reflections-on-seng-s-history 3) Drugs, incarceration, alienation - https://www.sengifted.org/post/at-risk-gifted
Beyond those thoughts on Humanities in general, there is concern for changing the focus of college/university offerings away from "liberal arts" and toward job training... this old post comes to mind, which links several discussion threads: http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....ing_out_of_CTY_and_decre.html#Post244668
Bottom Line: Is Howard U, a top HBCU, following the best course of action for its students?