Outcomes-Based Graduate School: the Humanities Edition - Opinion Piece

Leonard Cassuto writes: The numbers tell the story: In 2013, 39 percent of English Ph.D.s at Lehigh University found work only as contingent instructors. By late 2018, that figure had dropped to 9 percent. Instead of dead-end adjunct work, 46 percent of the university’s English Ph.D.s now enter humanities careers other than college teaching. Equally striking, however: The number of the university’s English Ph.D.s who find tenure-track professorships is also up — from about 18 percent in 2013 to 27 percent today.