The humanities in shadow (Robert Zaretsky, Chronicle of Higher Education)
The humanities in decline and what needs doing.
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The humanities in decline and what needs doing.
The ebb of the humanities with the flow of STEM near Seattle.
Harvard follows the general trends in academic enrollments, with the sciences gaining and the humanities losing.
Can humanities study remain relevant in the world of STEM?
The humanities have little standing in society at large.
The humanities are valuable in all professions.
Finding the human center in the humanities.
Words yield to pictures as the humanities decline.
Happy graduation, humanities students! "Better a few good scholars than many indifferent ones." You embody the meaning of George Washington's mandate to James McHenry, to paraphrase: it is infinitely better to have a few good scholars, than many indifferent ones. For the number of humanities majors has now decreased to the lowest level in a [...]
“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.