For the humanities faculty, “it’s an existential crisis,” Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, provost of Miami University, said in an interview. “There’s so much pressure about return on ...

The Ohio State University’s main campus, for example, saw a 46 percent drop in humanities majors between 2012 and 2022. But make no mistake: The humanities are thriving in the public sphere.

The Sept. 11 Business article “Humanities majors look back with most regret” contained any number of basic truths: that many college graduates leave school buried in debt; that STEM degree ...

With the exception of four states (North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming), the humanities majors had median incomes 40 percent higher than workers with only a high school degree. In each state, ...