The Humanities Are in Crisis Benjamin Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University and a core-faculty member in the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, discusses the current trend of students abandoning humanities majors and turning to degrees they think yield far better job prospects.
The Real Reason the Humanities Are ‘in Crisis’ As Ben Schmidt, assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, has shown in a series of great graphs, women’s choices of major really explain most of the drop. Starting in the late 1970s, women became the majority of the undergraduate student body at colleges and universities in the United States. By the 2000s, women made up […]
A Crisis in the Humanities? (Guest post! Ben Schmidt is the visiting graduate fellow at the Cultural Observatory at Harvard, and a graduate student in history at Princeton University. His research is in intellectual and cultural history and the use of computational techniques for historical research. He writes about digital humanities on the blog Sapping Attention. Beginning fall 2013, he will […]
Quartz The 2008 financial crisis completely changed what majors students choose The humanities were humming along prior to 2008, according to an analysis by the Northeastern University historian Benjamin Schmidt.
Quartz The 2008 financial crisis completely changed what majors students choose The humanities were humming along prior to 2008, according to an analysis by the Northeastern University historian Benjamin Schmidt. Over the previous decade, disciplines like history, philosophy, English literature, and religion were either growing or holding steady as a share of all college majors. But in the decade after the financial crisis, all of these majors took […]