Making a Liberal-Arts Education Pay

At the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention in November, I had lunch with speech-therapy professors from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and learned a remarkable fact.

Last spring, they told me, every one of their several dozen master’s students had a job lined up before graduation. I laughed and thought of my humanities world, where a good portion of seniors approach graduation with no idea what they’re going to do the day after.