"…Should college majors be a thing of the past?
That idea received a fresh airing when author Jeffrey Selingo suggested recently that it’s ‘time to end college majors as we know them.’
As a researcher who studies higher education, I concede that something about the way colleges and universities educate students in the United States needs to change. But the needed change may be more about how higher education institutions are run as opposed to getting rid of the college major altogether.
Selingo suggests that college majors are antiquated and limit students from developing the skills they need to be effective in today’s digital economy." …