Responding To William Pannapacker: Humanities Grad Students Strike Back.

Slate Magazine:

In his July 27 Slate essay, "Overeducated, Underemployed," William Pannapacker called graduate students in the humanities "smart suckers." An English professor at Hope College in Michigan, Pannapacker argued that "in all likelihood, a humanities Ph.D. will place you at a disadvantage competing against 22-year-olds for entry-level jobs that barely require a high-school diploma." He then outlined a plan for reforming higher education.

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Comments

[PiperSniper]

11:27 AM on 08/05/2011

Once again, the headline reflected nothing accurate in the actual article.

[naschkatze]

10:34 PM on 08/04/2011

Humanitarians and humanities majors are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but your post is not about humanitarians but students of the humanities.

[John David Redux]

05:56 PM on 08/04/2011

Did they just call humanities gradate students "humanitarians"? LOL