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 (DIR) Post #AT816uz64BSIDRVha4 by benmschmidt@vis.social
       2023-02-27T20:38:45Z
       
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       This New Yorker article about the decline of the humanities makes some huge factual errors about the humanities' history. Saying that humanities degrees hovered at "around fifteen per cent nationally" for "decades" is *completely wrong*; it was only an extremely anomalous period around 1970 that anything like that was true. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major
       
 (DIR) Post #AT816wvcq3roFFtxRo by benmschmidt@vis.social
       2023-02-27T20:43:16Z
       
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       This (below) is also factually inaccurate. History of science *is* included in the statistics about enrollments quoted from Rob Townsend earlier in the article.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT816zSJRVCa5DD5fs by benmschmidt@vis.social
       2023-02-28T02:30:20Z
       
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       But as I said on another microblogging site known for more snark, the real problem here is that the New Yorker is writing Yet Another article about higher education in which Harvard Grad returns to Harvard and marvels that kids today are slightly different… in this case with the absurd use of a just slightly less prestigious research university, ASU, as a proxy for all the not-Harvard schools, including regional comprehensives and community colleges that represent most of the majors in the US.