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How Humanities Professors Got Marginalized — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

Summary by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
In any discussion of the state of the humanities, the first fact is a numerical one. In School Year 2021-22, while a little more than two million people earned bachelors’ degrees in the United States, only 33,429 of them majored in English. That makes for a rate of 1.6 percent of the whole, one in 60 undergraduates. In 1970-71, a high point for English, the rate was one in 13. English used to be one of the most popular majors on campus, much mor…
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How Humanities Professors Got Marginalized — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

In any discussion of the state of the humanities, the first fact is a numerical one. In School Year 2021-22, while a little more than two million people earned bachelors’ degrees in the United States, only 33,429 of them majored in English. That makes for a rate of 1.6 percent of the whole, one in 60 undergraduates. In 1970-71, a high point for English, the rate was one in 13. English used to be one of the most popular majors on campus, much mor…

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The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal broke the news in on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
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