wakephan09
fuck duke
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Depending on the school (obviously), but the overhead for a department like this is probably just about zero. They cost the school nothing.unless your college is funding 4 tenured professors with like 10 majors/year
then you can definitely defund the department.
The humanities are hella cheap. In some cases pay for themselves. In some cases subsidize other departments.
Science departments are expensive as fuck to run and many of them are largely funded by outside grants. If people decided they valued the humanities and wanted to fund them with outside grants at even a fraction of what we give to science programs I think the world would look a lot different.
For every "worthless" theater major making cappuccinos there's two biology majors who didn't go to medical school and are working at Dunder Mifflin