<p>[Career</a> U. - Making College ‘Relevant’ - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Making College ‘Relevant’ - The New York Times”>Making College ‘Relevant’ - The New York Times)</p>
<p>4 years too late for my unemployable d - probably wouldn’t have made a diff anyway</p>
<p>Wow! Meanwhile, I’m very glad that S is going to a LAC while at the same time, he’s making plans to apply for internships. It’s possible to have a LAC degree and to get jobs.</p>
<p>"Consider the change captured in the annual survey by the University of California, Los Angeles, of more than 400,000 incoming freshmen. In 1971, 37 percent responded that it was essential or very important to be “very well-off financially,” while 73 percent said the same about “developing a meaningful philosophy of life.” In 2009, the values were nearly reversed: 78 percent identified wealth as a goal, while 48 percent were after a meaningful philosophy.</p>
<p>The shift in attitudes is reflected in a shifting curriculum. Nationally, business has been the most popular major for the last 15 years. Campuses also report a boom in public health fields, and many institutions are building up environmental science and just about anything prefixed with “bio.” Reflecting the new economic and global realities, they are adding or expanding majors in Chinese and Arabic. The University of Michigan has seen a 38 percent increase in students enrolling in Asian language courses since 2002, while French has dropped by 5 percent."</p>
<p>I think that it would depend on your major, not if you went to a LAC or not.</p>
<p>If you’ve got the skills and personality I need for the job, I’m going to hire you even if you went to Bob’s College-O-Rama. It’s not the school, it’s what you can do for the employer.</p>
<p>As for schools like Louisiana-Lafayette dropping majors like philosophy…duh! If you major in philosophy at a school like that and then can’t find a job, I have no sympathy for you. Sorry.</p>
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Heh. Always good news for those of us trying to break into academia.</p>