The NYT is noticing the crisis that we have often noted here. The "elephant in the room," of course, is the extraordinary cost of higher education in the U.S., which is almost certainly the primary explanation for the decline of humanities majors, and the increase in STEM and business majors. The STEM majors at least learn something, and their skills are in demand, but the evidence that most undergraduate business majors lead anywhere is uneven.
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