[Telepathic Intruder]

"all the different humanities departments live and die on numbers of students enrolled"

Yes of course, or the teacher would have to get another job. A few do aim for degrees in these fields, but then their only hope of using it is to get a teaching job, just perpetuating the cycle.

[Chickensoup]

A few do aim for degrees in these fields, but then their only hope of using it is to get a teaching job, just perpetuating the cycle

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The worst words out of the mouths of your college aged kid is that professor left-wing-nut thinks that they should change their major from nursing, engineering, finance etc to Womens studies, English etc, because they think I have a real future in the field.

I was able to short circuit that with my kids but have met others who bought the ploy.