These are two recent articles published in The Chronicle of Higher Education that discuss a wide range of issues dealing with graduate education in the humanities as well as job prospects and how we train (or rather, don't train) humanities graduate students for careers outside of academia.
"Forum: The Need for Reform in Graduate Humanities Education"
Interesting how you can tell the administrators (platitudes) from those who have a real investment in change (statistics, stories from the trenches).
Peter Conn, "We Need to Acknowledge the Realities of Employment in the Humanities"
This article summarizes a lot of the issues related to the adjunctification of higher education in the U.S., such as the corporatization of the university, the popularity of for-profit educational organizations like the University of Phoenix, the resistance of full-time faculty to retirement (especially given the current economic market), the over-admission of graduate students to humanities programs, the attrition rate of those same programs, etc. Conn offers some reasonable proposals for reform that might help alleviate the atrocities of the job market, including responses to potential counterarguments.
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