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Not long ago, heading out to an academic conference where I was scheduled to take part in a panel examining “alternative” careers for humanities degree holders and looking for airplane reading, I grabbed from my bookshelf three aging publications:
Getting a Job Outside the Academy: A Special Publication of the American Anthropological Association (1982), and
Humanities Ph.D.s and Nonacademic Careers: A Guide for Faculty Advisers (1983). After I got home, I retrieved an even earlier publication, Rita Jacobs’s
in the Humanities (1977). Each of these publications could benefit from some minor updating to make them fully relevant today, but the overall impression is that after roughly four decades, they have weathered surprising well.
Percentage of students with advisers who listened, respected and cared
What makes for successful advising? Listening, respect and caring, according to new data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, which Indiana University’s School of Education Center for Postsecondary Research administers annually.
“A trusting and respectful rapport with an advisor is essential for new students adjusting to and navigating a complex institution and for seniors looking to maximize opportunities within their major,” researchers wrote of data gleaned from the 2020 survey’s module on academic advising. “Among the primary traits possessed by advisors who develop positive relationships with students are active listening, empathy and cultural sensitivity.”
yale, harvard and the university of chicago s schools of law. among their faculty advisers was antonin scalia, a future supreme court justice. the group advances two specific legal theories. one, originalism. in the words of justice scalia, the constitution is not living but dead. the idea is that the meaning doesn t change with the times. anything the founders did not include, say abortion or gay marriage, should not be considered. the other, tex iualism. laws are interpreted only on the text, not the intent of the authors. problem, they were addressing the conditions or the times. the society found an early booster in ronald reagan s attorney general, meese, who put young and conservative leaders in positions. in the george h.w. bush administration, they got to help