> Students in the humanities are cash cows. They are cheap to teach and
> their tuition turns a profit.
>
This is true and it seems to be missing from this thread of the debate--and from Fish's diatribe as well. Humanities need no labs or computers or expensive equipment and the teachers are a dime a dozen thanks to the overproductivity of PhD programs in those fields. Adjuncts aplenty and highly qualified ones at that.
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