The story that English majors end up working at Starbucks is just the latest version of a myth that’s been going around for decades. And though it’s not true–as the data here and elsewhere have consistently shown–people still believe it. Faculty and students majoring in liberal arts fields have consistently had to fight back against the idea that these majors are career dead-ends, or, worse, that studying English or History is something only students from wealthy families should do.

Whether you believe these ideas are deliberate lies or simply common misperceptions, if you care about the humanities, you need to push back. That’s what these posters and postcards are for: to help give you, your colleagues, your students, and their parents the facts they need to make free and informed decisions about their college career.

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Graduates with humanities majors earn comparable median salaries ($53,000 for English majors, for example) to those majoring in biology ($56,000), environmental science ($57,000), and psychology ($49,000).

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