State of the Humanities: Workforce and Beyond
American Academy of the Arts and Sciences (November 2021)
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Introduction
How should one measure the value of a college degree? In recent years, policy-makers have focused their attention on earnings as the primary measure of the value of a degree, often using that metric to single out humanities degrees as less valuable than others.1 But there are other—less tangible—measures of value, such as satisfaction with one’s work and life more generally, that might also be applied to these discussions.
Without taking a position on which metrics are best, this report, based largely on original research commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators, examines a variety of outcome measures, including graduates’ satisfaction with their jobs, their finances, and their lives generally.... LINK