{"id":51,"date":"2018-02-11T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-02-11T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T17:18:24","slug":"the-humanities-kids-are-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/2018\/02\/11\/the-humanities-kids-are-alright\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Humanities) Kids are Alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-212x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-212x210.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-768x760.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-505x500.jpg 505w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/files\/2018\/02\/MI0002091988.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><strong>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amacad.org\/multimedia\/pdfs\/publications\/researchpapersmonographs\/HI_Workforce-2018.pdf\">recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a> refutes the claim that Humanities graduates are miserable and unemployed.<\/strong> This report is based on data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/gallup\/\">Gallup-Purdue index<\/a>, which measures satisfaction and well-being, in addition to earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Some takeaways:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Despite the uncertainty about the connection between their degree and their job, humanities graduates reported job satisfaction at levels comparable to graduates from almost every other fieeld.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Experience in the workforce appeared to play an important role in measures of satisfaction with the work humanities graduates perform.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In the oldest cohort, humanities graduates were near the highest levels of reported satisfaction on this measure [&#8216;At work, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day&#8217;].&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The is a lot of valuable information in this report, and in the index, that can help us better serve our humanities majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences refutes the claim that Humanities graduates are miserable and unemployed. This report is based on data from the Gallup-Purdue index, which measures satisfaction and well-being, in addition to earnings. Some takeaways: &#8220;Despite the uncertainty about the connection between their degree and their job, humanities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deansbookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}