across the water . adam, what was your reaction as an art history major when you first heard what the president said. you have to say if the apology came to art history majors. i thought he spoke well for the president. he is a man who knows when to apologi apologize. i thought what he was saying was alarming a little bit. what it implies is that there is a kind of consensus that the arts or history and english are secondary to our lives. i have been trying to think of ways in which you can counterer that. it seems to be the wrong way to counter it is art history majors end up working for google and end up being software entrepreneurs. that sometimes is true. steve jobs cared much more about
. art history majors and one took issue with a remark they made last month. a lot of people may no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career and folks could make a lot more with skilled manufacturing with the trades than with our history with the history degree. i love art history. i don t want to get a bunch of e-mails from everybody. the president didn t get plenty of e-mails including a run from the professor at the yesterday of texas. she pointed out that art history encourages critical thinking and according to the hospitals, a
the jobs that these graduates have that are not helping them get ahead in the job for. zoology, anthropology, art history majors, human a tees, those are the degrees that are least likely to find work according to the ap analysis of u.s. government data. or under employed, they have jobs as waiters, waitress, in the food sector. nursing, teaching, accounting and computer science is where they are doing better than their peers. the one state where people coming out of college have a good go of it, texas which has a high proportion according to the study of college skills and people being put to work. there was a study that says the graduating class of 2012 will actually have it better than the class of 2011 with hiring expected to pick up 10%. but keep in mind in the spring of last year hiring was expected to pick up for college grads as well. jon. jon: we keep waiting, and
americans under the age of 24 don t have a job. yeah. there s even a name for that group, art history majors. uh-oh. yeah. all right 28 minutes now before the top of the hour. we have a lot to go over today. i mean, i cannot believe we re falling back on the debate horse again. tonight. for the first time in about a month, i think. this could be the last one for a while. you know what would be great and i don t even check yet, is it going to start before 9:00 eastern? 8:00. thank goodness. we have a shot of being somewhat but it s seven hours long. oh! i hope not. fantastic. meanwhile let s hope so. looking for a second source. if he s going to follow the president. he s a singer these days. now to your headlines on this wednesday morning. we begin with a major update to a story we ve been paying close attention to. iran once again ordering the execution of a jailed christian pastor. pastor yousef sentenced to death for refusing to recant his
great career without getting a four-year college education as long as you get the skills and the training that you need. you can see him react knowing what he s done, but indeed, as soon as president obama made that very self-conscious joke about art history majors and he cringed as soon as he said it and tried to walk it back immediately, indeed, the reason he cringes, he knew what was about to happen would in fact happen. he felt the swift raft of the art historians and people who love them as soon as he got off the podium. the college art association tweeted president obama dissed art history today. art history majors now just a punch line for the president. it s president obama versus the gentlest foes you can imagine. one of those gentle foes is professor ann collins johns who teaches late medieval and art at the university of texas at ut austin.