In our modern work economy, people have more opportunities and resources to get the job they want; what matters the most is what people do to get those jobs.
A college education should be "broad and general," providing "complex communication skills and expert knowledge."
The humanities have a PR problem
“Crisis” and “decline” are the words of the day in discussions of the humanities. A primary stimulus for the concern is a startling factoid: only 8 percent of undergraduates major in humanities. But this figure is misleading.
Like a consumptive protagonist in a Victorian novel, the humanities have been dying for a long, long time.
With the Death of the Humanities Why professors, librarians, and politicians are shunning liberal arts in the name of STEM
