re: Should Arts and Humanities Majors be denied Grants and Loans?

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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.