Students pick majors based on what they think will get them jobs. They’re usually wrong. A strong piece from @benmschmidt at @TheAtlantic – https://t.co/9LbqsmuZiU — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) August 23, 2018 From the article: This may seem like a roundabout way to present the conventional wisdom that stem majors are the only safe bet…
On the myth of the “English major Starbucks barista.” From 2016, but in my feed last night and I missed this the first time around. What are we to make of this new old joke about the English major? Why did barista replace fast food worker? The fact is that English majors are not particularly…
In Catapult, Kristen Cardozo writes about the written word in the Age of Trump. Some might say that studying the humanities in the twenty-first century was already a questionable choice before 2016 brought with it the vivid sight of a dystopian future running headlong to embrace us. The future is STEM, we were told. To…
So part of my new job at the University of Minnesota is to convince students – and their families – that they can major in History and still be gainfully employed. The good news is that it’s true, they can. Even the Harvard Business Review says so. According to three new books, the answer is…