[lbo-talk] Destroying the humanities

Sean Andrews cultstud76 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 06:41:17 PDT 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 22:22, michael perelman <michael.perelman3 at gmail.com
> wrote:


> 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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