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February 18, 2025 56 mins

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join professor of history and humanities Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.

New America is a think tank founded in 1999 that focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy.Kevin Carey, who is the Vice President of Education and Work at New America and directs the Education Policy program and Sophie Nugyen, who is a senior policy manager with the higher education team at New America are both on the show to discuss their co written article Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed that was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

This conversation show cases some great ideas and highlights trends and false narratives in and around higher ed.

Works Cited:

New America's brief, Americans Have Not Actually Turned Against Higher Education Like the Media Says

New America's annual survey, Varying Degrees

And Steve Burd's book, Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by Silverman Sound Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree is produced by Abigail Smithson

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