My minimal ask to solve the crisis in the humanities is that political, media, business, and high ed leaders simply STOP ACTIVELY LYING about the career prospects for humanities majors. If we could just have that, everything else would be a lot easier.

It's amazing how much more versatile a degree in <<Thinking Good>> is than one in <<Thinking Really Good But Only About Very Specific Things>> That said, the humanities career path can be pretty circuitous compared to the idealized STEM route.

Also, can we say that the whole business major is just a kind of lying?

can we get people to stop actively lying about career prospects for STEM majors? shit has never actually been good in the last 20 years

My students were shocked to learn that you don’t need a four year degree in accounting to do the job. You can learn it in a couple months. Learning useful things takes much longer