Bibliography

Majors Excel

Point 1:

• Steedle and Bradley, “Majors Matter: Differential Performance on a Test of General College Outcomes,” Council for Aid to Education, 2014.
  
  
• Graduate Admissions Exams: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Indicators, 2011.
  
  
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• “MCAT and GPAs for Applicants and Matriculants to U.S. Medical Schools by Primary Undergraduate Major, 2016–2017,” Association of American Medical Colleges, 2017

Valued skills

Point 1:

• Hart Research Associates, “Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success,” Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2015.
  
  
• Valerie Strauss, “The Surprising Thing Google Learned About its Employees--and What it Means for Students Today,” Washington Post, December 20, 2017.
  
  
• Humanities Indicators, “The State of the Humanities 2018: Graduates in the Workforce & Beyond,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018, 16.
  
  
• Kedia, Xie, and Daniel, “2014 U.S. Business Needs for Employees with International Expertise Survey,” 2014.
  
  
• Hart Research Associates, “Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success,” Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2015.
  
  
• U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, A National Security Crisis: Foreign Language Capabilities in the Federal Government.

Career Success

Point 1:

• “Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates by Major,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2017.
  
  
• Carnevale, Cheah, Hanson, “The Economic Value of A College Major,” Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University, 2015.
  
  
• Humanities Indicators, “The State of the Humanities 2018: Graduates in the Workforce & Beyond,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018, 12.
  
  
• Humanities Indicators, “The State of the Humanities 2018: Graduates in the Workforce & Beyond,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018, 14, 16.
  
  
• Carnevale and Cheah, “Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings,” Georgetown University, 2013.

Point 2:

• Jeffrey Dorfman, “Humanities Degrees Provide Great Return on Investment,” Forbes, November 20, 2014.

Point 3:

• George Anders, “Good News for Liberal Arts Majors: Your Peers Probably Won’t Outearn You Forever,” Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2016.
  
  
• “Career Earnings by College Major,” The Hamilton Project, The Brookings Institution.

Benefits for Life

Point 1:

• John Kay quote excerpted from: “Prospering Wisely: How the Humanities and Social Sciences Enrich Our Lives,” British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, February 2014
  
  
• “Democracy Counts: A Report on U.S. College and University Student Voting,” National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement at Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, 2017.
  
  
• Danielle Allen, “The Future of Democracy: How Humanities Education Supports Civic Participation,” Humanities, Spring 2016, Volume 37, Number 2.
  
  
• Johann Neem, “The Liberal Arts, Economic Value, and Leisure,” Inside Higher Ed, October 23, 2012.

Point 2:

• David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano, “Different Stories: How Levels of Familiarity With Literary and Genre Fiction Relate to Mentalizing. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts,” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, August 2016.
  
  
• Diana I. Tamir, Andrew B. Bricker, David Dodell-Feder, and Jason P. Mitchell, “Reading Fiction and Reading Minds: The Role of Simulation in the Default Network,” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 11, no. 2, February 2016, pp. 215-24.
  
  
• Scott Jaschik, “Making the Case for Liberal Arts Colleges,” Inside Higher Ed, January 9, 2017.
  
  
• Drew Gilpin Faust quote excerpted from: Sophie Gilbert, “Learning to be Human,” The Atlantic, June 30, 2016.

Point 3:

• Mark Edmunson, “Why major in humanities? Not just for a good job--for a good life,” The Washington Post, August 8, 2013.
  
  
• Humanities Indicators, “The State of the Humanities 2018: Graduates in the Workforce & Beyond,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018, 19, 24.
  
  
• Neal Koblitz, “Why STEM Majors Need the Humanities,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2017.
  
  
• Edmund Phelps, “Why Teaching Humanities Improves Innovation,” World Economic Forum, September 4, 2014.