{"id":331,"date":"2011-01-01T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2011-01-01T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T19:57:11","slug":"pros-and-cons-of-spending-years-working-for-a-ph-d-in-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Pros and Cons of spending years working for a Ph.D. in the humanities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As this article in the Economist points out, academic opportunities in the humanities appear rather dismal for procuring full-time tenure and tenure-track employment. <em>Doctoral Degrees: The Disposable Academic<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17723223?story_id=17723223\">http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17723223?story_id=17723223<\/a> <!--more-->I believe that for many Ph.D. programs there is a\u00a0significant ethical concern posed here. Doctoral programs in applied areas (which have recently expanded beyond the traditional professional degrees such as M.D. and J.D) are faring much better than the humanities, as are many of the science and engineering fields also.<\/p>\n<p>I recognize that this article presents few Pros for a humanities Ph.D. My graduate work at Princeton was fully supported, and I enjoyed the experience while learning a great deal from leaders in their respective fields. Thus I can speak positively for those who might enjoy experiences similar to mine and under similar circumstances. But time and circumstances have changed academe significantly, and that was four decades ago. Make an informed choice, be realistic and flexible. I am currently recorded (via the graduate alumni association) as an advisor for Princeton graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the\u00a0Economist link above, I have copied a selection of Comments on the article onto my first Comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this article in the Economist points out, academic opportunities in the humanities appear rather dismal for procuring full-time tenure and tenure-track employment. Doctoral Degrees: The Disposable Academic http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/17723223?story_id=17723223<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}