Jobs and liberal arts graduates: Some critical relationships
Toombs W.; Thomas K.
1976
Research in Higher Education
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10.1007/BF00991380
Policy deliberations within the university frequently require information useful in shaping discussion and pointing up priorities. Research work among faculty and graduate students often includes data about alumni, students, or staff gathered to answer theoretical questions. This study reports one effort to translate such data into forms useful to the College of Liberal Arts in creating academic policy to meet the altered job market. Organized around the concepts of job entry, decisions, and changes in goals, jobs, and majors, the analysis revealed the urgency of the issue, the importance of a satisfaction on the first job, a changing relationship between jobs and majors, the impact of the liberal arts' study on educational aspirations, and the rationale for choices. © 1976 APS Publications, Inc.
college graudates; employment; job satisfaction; liberal arts; occupational goals
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