“We don’t need to pay you fairly because you are doing it for love.” (Such a bargain should particularly alarm women, who are now the majority of graduate students in the humanities and the overwhelming majority of adjuncts.)
YIKES
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- Apr 2021
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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They seem to assume that a graduate student will remain childless, or will have no responsibility to care for elderly parents, or will never have any health problems. They assume that there will always be someone else to pay the bills and wash the clothes, while the bohemian geniuses pursue their exalted calling. It’s a kind of infantile narcissism: placing one’s desires above all the other obligations that adults generally assume.
This seems like black and white thinking. People negotiate for living the way they desire in the face of difficult practical circumstances all the time.
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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isn’t big enough to be representative
important to note! disappointing that we don't have this data
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nces.ed.gov nces.ed.gov
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In 2019, the employment rate for female 25- to 34-year-olds with a bachelor's or higher degree was 44 percentage points higher than for similar individuals who had not completed high school.
But I'd really like to see graduate degree employment rates
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It’s small wonder, therefore, that humanities graduates go on to a variety of fields. The biggest group of US humanities graduates, 15%, go on to management positions. That’s followed by 14% who are in in office and administrative positions, 13% who are in sales and another 12% who are in education, mostly teaching. Another 10% are in business and finance.
management positions—yikes
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46% thought it was a problem that their employees struggled with handling feelings, whether theirs or others’.
AHA!
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in the US, for example, a bachelor’s degree holder earns $461 more each week than someone who never attended a university.
a major problem with using this statistic is that it may not apply to humanities degrees in particular
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www.chronicle.com www.chronicle.com
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an enormous personal risk
ok but people who go on major backpacking trips are taking enormous personal risks, too, and nobody is writing snarky articles about them (yes they are actually)
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taken advantage of recessions to bring austerity to teaching
seems like a mischaracterization
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real jobs
would like a definition
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eaches them that life outside of academe means failure, which explains the large numbers of graduates who labor for decades as adjuncts, just so they can stay on the periphery of academe.
haven't had this experience
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generally compete at a moderate disadvantage against undergraduates
would like a citation here
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A graduate fellowship was an escape that landed me in another city — Miami — with at least enough money to get by.
seems fine
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They received high grades and a lot of praise from their professors, and they are not finding similar encouragement outside of an academic environment. They want to return to a context in which they feel validated.
This seems especially relevant to me. I think I've wound up staying in institutions because a) economic privilege has allowed me to, and b) they give me a sense of purpose, probably.
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“Yes, my child, you are the one we’ve been waiting for all our lives.”
Yikes
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