"Decline of the humanities" is pretty easy to explain, and largely thanks to a political campaign against inclusion of marginalized folks in the discourse since the 70s.
Measuring by no. of majors isn't "efficient."
Screaming "GeT oUr ChILdReN joBS!!" at subject-area experts isn't either.
Evan Torner
I got through a bit of this already notorious report, written by very prominent philosophers about the “decline of the humanities.” Everyone on this report is smarter than I am, yet none of them seems to understand what it’s been like to navigate the academy since the late 1990s.
higheredstatementofprinciples.com
Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences Download the report. This report is addressed to university chancellors and presidents who are concerned about the state of academic scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences and who may wish, within their purview, to promote excellent scholarship […]
