"Unprepared and Confused"
Inside Higher Ed highlights a new study showing only 28% of liberal arts students have
confidence that their skills could lead to success in the job market.
We don't think studies like
this discredit the value of the humanities in the slightest. Instead, we think
the result indicates a need for reflection on the role of liberal arts and for more robust career services for the particular challenges humanities
students face on the job hunt. An unfortunate disconnect in liberal arts education is that the professorate is largely made up of terminal degree holders in the humanities, but the great majority of students will not pursue graduate degrees, and even many who do will not secure tenure track employment. While we hope that savvy career services departments around the world can rise to the unique challenge of helping bright humanities students find gainful employment, we believe our blog can play a small role to fill that void in the meantime.
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