As an engineering graduate of Virginia Tech, I find that sad. I think there should always be room in our society and our economy for those with a liberal arts background. Although, I suppose when the economy has been destroyed by corrupt nanny-staters and "progressives", we must take a back-to-basics approach to things. The average person can survive without novels, poetry, philosophers, the theater, etc. It's much tougher without such things as food, drinking water, medical care and electricity.
And of course, there IS the fact that it is currently almost impossible to find a classic university at which to seek said well-rounded classical education. Political correctness and "progressivism" have seen to that.
I think it is incredibly ironic that the classic 'liberal arts education' has, over the last 50 years or so, been all but eliminated from higher education in this country by the very Liberals who allegedly cherish it. They have virtually destroyed the ability of the average liberal arts major to make a good living in their field of interest by assuring that the overwhelming majority of people graduating our universities with liberal arts degrees are progressive- indoctrinated, mush-brained automatons, incapable of independent thought and unable to formulate a logical argument.
When I finished college (1982) there was no such thing as Racial or Sexual counselors or the like and I am glad we weren't that de-evolved yet.
you can still find a classical education, you just have to look harder. my daughter graduated from the U of Dallas, it’s a small private Catholic university in Dallas, and it’s billed as the university for independent thinkers. They don’t use text books, they use original texts. she got a first rate education there. we live in the DC area and she has a job with a trade association. the school was by and large very conservative also, which was why she chose it.