"Ohio Wesleyan University is eliminating 18 majors" https://lnkd.in/gh2_cbM This is terrible we are all sure, except you may not understand why colleges have majors. No professor wants to teach intro courses. They want to teach their "research" --- the stuff they have been thinking about. To make this possible they create required courses that lead to more advanced courses. (My secretary once asked me why her kid was required to take at history since she wanted to go into the retail clothing world.) I replied that the art history faculty were trying to save their jobs. A major adds new requirements for useless courses and faculty get to teach what they want and they get to keep their jobs. All this has nothing to do with student's needs or interests. I am beginning to think that Covid may become the savior of college education, forcing schools to cater to the real world and to student's desires. #education #teaching #college #highereducation
Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
https://www.nytimes.com
The author has harsh words for some of the courses in college education. I wonder if the same is happening across the pond. It would be helpful to know so that counsellors can better inform students.
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Should it be called sheer business acumen or power play? when a retail clothing world aspirant to choose history, and keep justifying to their bosses; the reason to choose that major ?