{"id":647,"date":"2017-06-05T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/?p=647"},"modified":"2017-06-05T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:28:42","slug":"history-not-useless-major-fighting-myths-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/2017\/06\/05\/history-not-useless-major-fighting-myths-data\/","title":{"rendered":"History Is Not a Useless Major: Fighting Myths with Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap-pf\">O<\/span>ver the past 20 years, warnings from a variety of sources\u2014from career counselors to administrators to government officials\u2014have convinced many prospective college students (and their parents) that the only safe path to a well-paying job is through a STEM major. Members of the academy\u2014including STEM faculty themselves\u2014have repeatedly challenged assertions that majoring in the humanities is useless. And employers of STEM graduates say that they value skills cultivated in a wide-ranging curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/publications-and-directories\/perspectives-on-history\/april-2017\/history-is-not-a-useless-major-fighting-myths-with-data\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 20 years, warnings from a variety of sources\u2014from career counselors to administrators to government officials\u2014have convinced many prospective college students (and their parents) that the only safe path to a well-paying job is through a STEM major. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/2017\/06\/05\/history-not-useless-major-fighting-myths-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/shpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}