by Jon Lackman | 19 January 2009 | Uncategorized
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
When it comes to hard data about what they do, policy makers and educators in the humanities have been mostly left out in the cold, forced to rely on isolated statistics that do not give an overview of the field. That changed this month, as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences unveiled the prototype of its long-awaited Humanities Indicators project.
Combing the report, we came across a couple interesting (if outdated) art-history-related statistics:
“Art History” (presumably “Intro to Art History”) was the 17th most popular college course among students who graduated high school in 1992. Seventeen percent of these students took the course, down from 23% of students who graduated high school in 1972.
Fifteen percent of art-history PhDs were employed as curators, versus 56% as college teachers/professors, as of 1995.
