Study finds engaged professors help with job engagement and life-long student success

Recently, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, an article noted that students who are engaged actively with their professors often succeed in their studies and in their lives.  The article states:

If you believe the new "Gallup-Purdue Index Report," a study of 30,000 graduates of American colleges on issues of employment, job engagement, and well-being, it all comes down to old-fashioned values and human connectedness. One of the report’s big takeaways: College graduates, whether they went to a hoity-toity private college or a midtier public, had double the chances of being engaged in their work and were three times as likely to be thriving in their well-being if they connected with a professor on the campus who stimulated them, cared about them, and encouraged their hopes and dreams.

The article also broke down things by majors in terms of job employment and engagement at work.  It is interesting to note the differences between the sciences and the humanities.  They note:

The survey found that, while nearly 40 percent of graduates are engaged at work, half of them are not engaged, and 12 percent are actively disengaged. The liberal arts scored a win in the survey: While people who had majored in science or business reported more full-time employment, those who had majored in the social sciences or the arts and humanities were more engaged at work.

Ultimately, the article implies that a working relationship between students and professors seems to be a higher factor in student success than anything else.