“What are you going to do with your degree?” This skeptical question is all too familiar to most humanities majors. As the perception of the humanities as useless disciplines proliferates, their ...

Shelly C. Lowe, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, visited the University of Massachusetts on Friday to discuss the work of the NEH and reflect on her role as the “spokesperson for ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Tyler Bane, a history major at Monmouth University, has heard the loud whispers that his studies would lead home to a dead end and underemployed, but as he nears graduation this ...

The headline splashed across the digital pages of The New Yorker on February 27 appeared to spell tragedy for humanities education with broad brush strokes: “The End of the English Major.” But as dean ...

Despite growing skepticism about the value of humanities degrees, college graduates who majored in a humanities field outearn people with no degree in every state, a new report has found. The American ...

Humanities graduates’ earnings are substantially higher than those of people without a college degree and are often on par with or higher than those of graduates in other fields. Credit: Staff/ The ...

The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute created an audio project to spread awareness and provide student insight on the value of humanities degrees. The 15 minute audio project features ...