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Article: Remember the Ph.D. glut? Colleges will go begging. (report predicts shortage in humanities and social sciences professors)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 25, 1989
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Parents wondering how they will afford 21st-century college tuition for their 20th-century school children
now have a new worry: Who will be there to teach them? A report issued last week projects a scarcity of available candidates for college teaching positions by the turn of the century. Contrary to what many have warned, the shortage will be graver in the social sciences and humanities than in the natural sciences. As early as 1997, 3 out of every 10 faculty openings in the humanities could go begging.
No college or student could escape the impact of shortages described by William Bowen, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Julie Ann Sosa, ...