<p>I agree that there is an undercurrent of conflict (in a nice way) between liberal arts majors and professional majors. It goes back to the debate about the value of education for education’s sake (without regard to employment) vs education that is directed towards a specific type of job. For example, there is a thread here somewhere where engineers and mathematicians argue the relative merits of their majors. I didn’t realize that this existed, but if I did, I would have realized that the honors college is heavily directed towards liberal arts majors. In a school like Pitt, that leaves out a whole lotta people (engineering, health professions, business, LIS, social work, education, etc). </p>
<p>I guess that we hear what we want to hear, and UHC does not make this distinction very loudly.</p>