Excerpt from Lynn Pasquerella’s post–

Countering the devaluing of the humanities, then, will require employing multiple messages that target different audiences. Prospective students and their parents, together with legislators controlling the purse strings, certainly need to know about research like AAC&U’s employer surveys, consistently showing that hiring managers value the skills, competencies, and dispositions foundational to an education in the humanities (AAC&U, How College Contributes to Workforce Success: Employer Views on What Matters Most). Yet, we shouldn’t appeal to data at the expense of emotional and social factors underlying how people form beliefs…. [more]