Tag: Humanities Jobs
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“When Welfare and Schooling Don’t Mix”
“They say that going to a four-year school and studying liberal arts does not prepare you for a job. But liberal arts makes you well-rounded. You learn how to speak, how to present yourself; it teaches you the essential things.” This article deals with a fundamental issue that faces CUNY during all time periods: educational…
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“Don’t Shut Welfare Recipients Out of College”
Op Ed by Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy. The Chancellor in this piece argues against the loss of state assistance for people who enroll in bachelor’s degree programs. He discusses liberal education as both a right who should be available to all, and as necessary training for employment. The piece also includes a large visual element…
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“CUNY Chancellor Blasts Administration Policies”
Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy decries cuts to CUNY’s funding. The most interesting thing about this article is that the story wasn’t reported in the New York City papers. During a trip to Washington D.C., the Chancellor blasts the Reagan administration’s “strangulation” of graduate funding for studies in the humanities and social sciences, saying that working…
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“City U. Profiles Its ’81 Graduates a Year Later”
This piece suggests that the University is doing well at meeting its goals in terms of serving unrepresented students who normally would not have access to a college education. It also reflects a growing concern for the financial state of humanities graduates. Read more.
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“An Experiment in Reschooling the Scholar”
This article is one of many concerning retraining teachers to better serve the current needs of students in a changing job market. For example, the article discusses the potential for retraining humanists in fields like computer science. It describes the English major as an “endangered species.” Read more.
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“The Market for Ph.D.’s”
A female philosophy professor from the Graduate Center rebuts a claim in a previous letter that all unemployed philosophers are male. I include this brief and eloquent reply to illustrate how the dialogues around the humanities Ph.D. are changing just over two decades later; while the university was scrambling to increase capacity to provide Ph.D.’s…
