1. Discussion of the Newspaper Articles & the Topic Model:

• General discussion on working with the topic model, "anthology," and corpus of newspaper articles (your impressions and questions).
• Reports of teams:
1. (Francisco, Bella, Karina, Justin)
   What  does an overview of the public discourse on the humanities look like?
2. (Darya, Claire, Noelle)
   How do articles focused on the humanities in particular intersect with other topics (for example, what other topics does a “humanities in crisis” article link with)?
3. (Sydney, Phi, Sonia, Melani)
   How is the humanities represented in other areas of public discourse (for example, how do the humanities factor into a discussion of, say, climate change)?
• Next or follow-up research questions we should be asking in understanding public discourse on the humanities (based on our CRG corpus)?
• Other methods or tools we should experiment with for understanding our corpus?

2. Next Steps

• Assignment for our teams in preparation for Winter Meeting 4:
• Continue research on and reading of the CRG corpus.
• Each team should create a bullet-point list of draft ideas, consisting of:
• Main analyses/theses about public discourse on the humanities that could be included in the final white paper at the end of the quarter.
• Possible recommendations for advocating the humanities based on your analyses/theses.
• Winter Meeting 4 Agenda:
• We will use the team bullet-point lists to brainstorm a structure and ideas for the white paper.
• We will set up a process for the group (the three teams working in collaboration) to produce the white paper.
• The white paper will have a structure approximately like the following (to be adjusted after our discussion):
• "Executive Summary"
• Context of issues
• Description of materials and methods we used
• Main findings
• Main recommendations.
• "Action Briefing"
• Assignment for our teams in preparation for Winter Meeting 5: 
• Collaborate on producing a draft of the white paper.
• Winter Meeting 5 Agenda:
• Discussion of the white paper
• Initial brainstorming of project ideas for Spring quarter
• Brainstorming of materials, expenses, etc. that Professor Liu can include in a FRAP funding request for spring quarter

Tools and resources

• Text analysis tools to supplement topic model analysis
• Overview (set up an account for yourself)
• Antconc 
• Instructions for using Antconc
• Team collaboration tools
• Slack
• Ryver