Should Arts and Humanities Majors be denied Grants and Loans?

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arts and humanities type studies

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Chick majors, huh bruh

Those are degrees I wouldn't pursue, but they are needed in society.

No. We should, however, more heavily subsidize people to study for careers in Tech, healthcare, business, engineering, and science related fields.

Then we can say there truly is no excuse for majoring in Women's studies.

Teachers should receive free tuition with a 20 year contract. If you quit prior, you repay in totality.

If they can't hack the 20 year committment, eliminate the middle man and enroll at Champions Real Estate School right after HS graduation.

Not all, but many teachers have degrees in those fields, especially pre-secondary schools. That's employment.

I say university degrees are for the aristocracy. The common man can find appropriate employment through trade schools.

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taxpayers shouldn't be funding degrees that don't lead to direct professional employment

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First, colleges aren't built to have anything to do with employment. So judging them, or the degrees they offer, based on this fact is inaccurate.

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If school wants, they can grant/loan students from their endowments....no tax payer money

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Through research grants, which are massively more valuable in sciences and engineering, non-A&H grads usually have access to more pools of money if they really require it.

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I looked and looked.....I'd like to see an unemployment/loan default list based on major(as a percentage)

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Does it matter? One of the best things that colleges do is build a varied and discipline-fluid workforce. Putting in measures, and legal restrictions, on that output is, well, ignorant.

Instead of wasting time telling people what they can't or shouldn't do...

We should help build humanities and art programs that are more efficient and direct in how they prepare students for jobs. You can't tell me that an English major has no place in the work force, because then, again, that's just ignorance.

The problem is that faculty and deans don't see the need for this, yet. Their focus is on creating miniature versions of themselves, so only the truly creative and/or ambitious can figure out how to use an A & H background effectively. We just need to break the clone cycle so that people understand the value of an A & H degree.

I mean, do you understand that this:

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Arts and Humanities Majors be denied Grants and Loans

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Means you're effectively putting rails and limitations on knowledge output? Think about that for a second.

My wife got a sociology degree and makes above average money for people her age and with her commission probably more than a lot of posters here. Generalizing the potential of someone based on their chosen major isn't particilarly smart.

My wife got a French Lit degree from LSU with tons of loans, her father was ill and past before she graduated, and yes she had to start on the bottom. She's never ever missed a payment. She makes very good money now and is way sharper than most of the business/MBA people she's up against.

I think it makes you stronger to study what you love. Hell, I studied physics and that's not immediately valuable to anyone.