Outcomes-Based Graduate School: the Humanities Edition
The numbers tell the story: In 2013, 39 percent of English Ph.D.s at Lehigh University found work only as contingent instructors. By late 2018, that figure had dropped to 9 percent. Instead of dead-end adjunct work, 46 percent of the university’s English Ph.D.s now enter humanities careers other than college teaching.
Modified on July 12, 2019