Valin Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Power Line Steven Hayyward Sept. 6 2022 Leftists in the academy get very defensive when you charge them with killing the liberal arts, but today the Washington Post provides fairly damning evidence that this proposition is true. The subhed to their story on the “most-regretted majors” of college graduates, drawn from a Federal Reserve study, is: “Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly.” Who dominates the liberal arts in our colleges and universities? Leftists. QED. From the article, which includes a number of stunning charts and graphs: (Snip) (Snip) Back when I was in college, if you wanted to make a joke about a frivolous or easy major for lazy or unmotivated students, the example you used was “underwater basket-weaving,” which of course didn’t exist, and had no ideological angle in any case. Today, when someone wants to give an example of a frivolous major, what is the most common example? Gender studies, of course, which does exist, and is definitely ideological. The Post story does note this: Quote Among the humanities, only two [fields] increased: cultural, ethnic and gender studies, and linguistics. Of course, this fact is misleading. These are the radicalized fields that loudly demand more resources (and to which administrations immediately accede), and then mandates that students must take their courses, starting now in high school in California. So the path to the full zombification of higher education continues. If I understand the literature about zombies correctly, the problem with zombies is that they don’t know they’re dead. Like our universities today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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