GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADERS: There is talk of a crisis as fewer students are taking bachelor's degrees in the humanities LAST year, a report from Harvard University set off alarm bells because it showed that the proportion of students in the United States completing bachelor's degrees in the humanities fell from 14 per cent to seven per cent. Even elite universities like Harvard itself have experienced a similar decrease. Moreover, the decline seems to have become steeper in recent years. There is talk of a crisis in the humanities. I don't know enough about the humanities as a whole to comment on what is causing enrolment to fall. Perhaps many humanities disciplines are not seen as...
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