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How to Prepare Faculty and Graduate Students for Public Humanities Leadership

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Graduate career development has grown over recent years with increasing interest in public scholarship and career diversity. In interviews with 41 public humanities leaders, participants agreed that public humanities introduces students to various career opportunities through community-engaged work and allows them to develop skills needed for those careers, such as event planning and fundraising. Some participants also noted that career diversity is becoming an important area of public humanities leadership roles. However, participants shared that faculty have not been formally prepared for their public humanities roles, and, in turn, faculty have not been prepared to teach graduate students for public humanities or career diversity. How do faculty prepare students for opportunities when they do not feel prepared for those same opportunities? This piece offers answers to that question.

Source: Public humanities.

DOI: 10.1017/pub.2024.8

Authors: Elizabeth L. Angeli, Rachel McNealis

Institution: Marquette University

Language: English

Topic: Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,550