may not survive https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/12/the-liberal-arts-may-not-survive-the-21st-century/577876/?utm_source=feed
Plenty of liberal arts subjects will survive the 21st Century: psychology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science, economics, etc. It's odd that one school in the article eliminated geography and geology. Geographic information systems is a hot job right now, and geologists are hired by oil companies. There are oil booms and busts, but petroleum engineering is also affected by this. And, I don't think the English major is going anywhere because English teachers will always be needed. What no one wants to tackle is how useless business administration/management degrees are. Yeah, there are a lot of jobs that ask for this degree, but the degree program doesn't really teach any skills in depth. Colleges only offer this degree in droves because it's the most popular, but since so many people get this degree, most end up in jobs that don't require a degree. What's funny is that one school is eliminating liberal arts subjects and adding a degree in conservation law enforcement. I don't even know where to begin to describe how useless that major will be. Criminal justice majors already have a hard enough time finding jobs that require a degree, but at least it's a degree that can be applied to a wide variety of jobs. You don't need to study conservation law enforcement for four years to do conservation law enforcement, and it will be a degree that will be relevant to nothing else.
I put these quotes side by side because this really needed to be said. And so, thank you for saying it.
The economic gains of a liberal arts education https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/02/15/study-documents-economic-gains-liberal-arts-education
Interesting stats and comments. Would that those that push their STEM agenda take the time to read and digest this article.
