Many lesser-known public colleges nationwide have begun cutting back on the humanities. Similar reductions are only expected to grow across the country.
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Miami University of Ohio is trying a different tack for low-enrollment programs: consolidation rather than elimination. A memo from the university showed 18 programs under consideration for melding into other specialties, including American studies, art history, classical studies, French, German, Italian studies, religion, as well as Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies, and women’s gender and sexuality studies.
It always starts with a few majors. This is how knowledge dies. This is how insight inward toward self-criticism dies. Also really Spanish??? As if we don't need more Spanish majors in the US.