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Posted on 01/11/2026 4:40:20 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
In an undated post regarding admissions to graduate arts and sciences programs for the 2026–27 academic year, Boston University indicated that the history of art and architecture program was not admitting candidates, along with American studies, anthropology, religion, and romance studies programs. In November 2024, meanwhile, the school had already indicated that its department of the history of art and architecture would not accept Ph.D. students for the next academic year, according to a report from Inside Higher Education. In an email obtained by the publication, the heads of the College of Arts and Sciences, which includes the art history department, “pointed to increased costs associated with the union contract that graduate student workers won after their historic, nearly seven-month strike ended in October.”
But Inside Higher Education noted that there was an effort already underway before the union contract, as noted in an email obtained from deans, to “right-size” doctoral cohorts, “considering such factors as selectivity in admissions, student success, job prospects and placements, standing and reputation of the program, etc.” ...
The Harvard Crimson reported in October that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would cut the number of Ph.D. student admissions in the arts and humanities division, which includes the department of the history of art and architecture, by about 60 percent for the next two years.
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To understand Christianity from the church fathers onwards. To know how the masses studied the Bible for CENTURIES...To understand Orthodox vs. Catholic, Constantinople vs. Istanbul, the impact of the Protestant Reformation, Luther vs. Calvin, followed by the Enlightenment, modernism, postmodern madness, etc...all comes by way of studying art + architecture!
To preserve and understand, not just Western Civilization, but ALL civilizations -- especially ancient: Art History is the key.
It's one of the few remaining fields of study where encountering the subject of God and the divine is unavoidable.
Hillsdale College offers a free online course on American art.
Oh crap. Now where is Starbucks going to find its baristas?
Catherine, Princess of Wales got her degree Art History and obviously comes in handy to appreciate the royal lineage and legacy she’s joined. But it shouldn’t have to be a major. It should be REQUIRED as general ed even if you plan to be a doctor or welder!
My daughter has a MFA. Her husband as two of them.
They both work at a major university.
I asked them about Art History. They both told me that Art History was the hardest undergrad course they had.
People think Art Degrees are a walk in the park. My experience through them, their MFAs were more difficult than any MBA course I ever saw. Not only are the technical classes difficult, the actual art part of them mostly consist of working your ass off for weeks…and then subjecting yourself to “critiques” that are absolutely soul crushing.
The down side is there are very few jobs afterwards.
But they’ll keep their queer studies. U’s have degraded to crap. Need new schools that actually teach substance and not septic ideology.
“pointed to increased costs associated with the union contract that graduate student workers won after their historic, nearly seven-month strike ended in October.”
‘Need new schools that actually teach substance and not septic ideology.’
I couldn’t agree more.
To add to that, the cuts are due as much to ideology than anything else. They'll fund all the new age woke crap no problem.
@PeterPrinciple. The article also states: "But Inside Higher Education noted that there was an effort already underway before the union contract."
Without highly educated people how are future generations going to learn that we lived in the same era as Hunter Biden’s greatest art?
Art History huh?
A lot of universities need to close.
Total waste of money.
Universities were founded not as job training institutions. You had apprenticeships for that. They were founded as places to THINK and LEARN through foundations of Western Civilization, which are the Greek and Latin classics and Christianity.
Read Harvard’s original mission statement points 1 & 2:
1. When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose, And decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue: Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college.
2. Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life, John 17:3, and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him Prov. 2, 3.
Key Statistics and Trends (as of early 2026)
Since 2020 (post-pandemic start), roughly 70–85 private nonprofit colleges have closed or merged, with around 40–50 full closures (sources vary slightly on exact counts).
From 2008–2024 overall, about 312 degree-granting institutions closed (including for-profits, which were hit harder pre-2020).
Annual average from 2020–2023: ~16 closures per year.
2024 saw a spike: 20–28 institutions closed (higher than prior years, with reports of nearly one per week at points).
2025: At least 15–16 nonprofit institutions announced or completed closures, plus some campus closures (e.g., several Penn State branches) and mergers to avoid full shutdowns.
Ask Grok about the history of the university in Western Civilization.
Again, they were not tickets to jobs and money and 401K’s.
IT was about actual learning and spiritual development.
too bad they are not cutting the social science departments which house the highest concentration of woke communist professors.
these people need to go. the best way to do that is to not provide loans to people majoring in the social sciences. or even the liberal arts for that matter.
The private school can drive all the way they want into delusionland! It’s up to their governing boards to restrain them or not.
For state supported schools particularly land-grant (Morill Act) school that’s a different story! The state legislatures have been completely remiss in their responsibilities to keep them on their mission.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts
I imagine the state legislators can be kept on under control with good sets at football and basketball Amex.
Katherine/Kate?
REQUIRING Art History? I’d kill myself.
Better to require Music Theory, which gets your mind syncing with Math basics.
Don’t knock it until you try it. When I was in college, the easiest way to get acquainted with hot sorority girls was to enroll in an art history course.
Don’t knock it until you try it. When I was in college, the easiest way to get acquainted with hot sorority girls was to enroll in an art history course.
“Just mention modern art, civil rights, or folk music and you’re in like Flynn.”
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