The shift in the material base of the university leaves the humanities entirely out in the cold. Corporations don't earmark donations for the humanities because our research culture is both self-contained and absurd. Essentially, we give the copyrights of our scholarly articles and monographs to university presses, and then buy them back, or demand that our libraries buy them back, at exorbitant markups. And then no one reads them. The current tenure system obliges us all to be producers of those things, but there are no consumers." (Donoghue 2008)
The idea in education is one of operating as a business. The academic partners within the university setting are essentially in competition with one another for funding and other resources. If the students with stellar marks from certain departments are highly recruited by business and academia, the department is heralded and viewed upon favorably. Should a department not have much success in these areas, the consideration of the value added is questioned and policies for removal may be made. This is the case for Humanities, however the notion that human development is diametrically opposed to economic well-being is not widely accepted as other majors do provide some of the qualities afforded to a Humanities graduate.
For Humanities to survive, there must be a strategic plan that advocates and plans for its survival among the many schools of business, engineering, and other departments that are increasingly in competition with the Humanities division. For instance, can a Humanities major be a more effective human resources generalist than a business major? The soft-skills and rather unbiased nature of the Humanities education would benefit the employee in such a role. Whether the business major is sufficiently trained to make decisions from qualitative inputs is not clear whereas with the Humanities major the identification of such critical thinking is inherent throughout the coursework.
According to Donoghue, "In 2001 the entire for-profit, postsecondary industry graduated a little more than 28,000 students with associate and bachelor's degrees in business and management, a little more than 10,000 a.A.'s and B.A.'s in the health sciences, and not a single English major. Despite the progressive expansion of the general student population, the humanities stand to lose ground steadily. The last year in which 50% of students graduated with B.A.'s in traditional liberal-arts subjects-English, history, languages, philosophy -- was 1970, and that was higher than it had been in a while." (Donoghue, 2008)
Remodeling the Humanities field is critical to attracting and retaining students in a declining enrollment phase throughout all Humanities departments. Should this trend continue, departments will have to cut majors from the curriculum. Most will initiate the cutting of languages from...
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