Indeed, as the author lamented about how much the deck is stacked against the humanities, I found myself wondering: are there actually fewer students today studying the humanities than at some point in the past?
Is the number of people with degrees in medieval literature actually decreasing, or just not increasing as much as the number of engineers?
Seems more likely that there are just a lot more students who can attend university now, and the sustainable way for this to happen is for most of them to be encouraged to go into particularly employable fields. This would fit with the observation that there's currently a huge oversupply of humanities Ph.D.'s with no academic positions waiting for them.
Is the number of people with degrees in medieval literature actually decreasing, or just not increasing as much as the number of engineers?
Seems more likely that there are just a lot more students who can attend university now, and the sustainable way for this to happen is for most of them to be encouraged to go into particularly employable fields. This would fit with the observation that there's currently a huge oversupply of humanities Ph.D.'s with no academic positions waiting for them.