Dr. Michele Tracy Berger published her co-authored op-ed, Our Graduates’ Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Cultural and Gender Studies Degrees, for Ms. Magazine on Sunday, July 20th, 2025. The op-ed argues that in contrast to the recent demonization of DEI & “gender ideology,” which have painted our interdisciplinary fields as “useless” or “garbage degrees,” our data-informed perspective, drawing from government and other national data (such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Association of Colleges & Employers), paints a far more positive picture of what graduates accomplish.