RESOURCE: Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track 2

The finished report and data from the Scholarly Communication Institute’s study on graduate education and career development is now available. “Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track” includes specific recommendations on how to better prepare graduate students for alt-ac jobs, including:

• Evaluate and modify required aspects of graduate-level curricula
• Rethink standard methods courses
• Create one-credit courses that center on ecosystems
• Form more deliberate partnerships with inter- and para-departmental structures
• Cultivate partnerships with the public sphere
• Encourage (and provide funding for) students to become members in relevant professional associations
• Work to expand the understanding of what constitutes scholarship
• Critically examine the kinds of careers that are implicitly and explicitly promoted
• Make a much stronger effort to track former students

The study was led by Katina Rogers, who notes, “Having worked on this for over a year, I’m more convinced than ever about the importance of incorporating public engagement and collaboration into humanities doctoral education—not only to help equip emerging scholars for a variety of career outcomes, but also to maintain a healthy, vibrant, and rigorous field.”