There is no chance I would let a university humanities department anywhere near my children at this point.
Examples?
> Charging obscene levels of tuition for it while piling the real work onto adjuncts.
This is endemic to the US university system, in general.
> Close-mindedness that would make John Calvin blush.
Again, it's all fun and games to riff and instantly disregard a vast number of fields of study, but you're not doing yourself any favors by just throwing out a laundry list. You have an immense distrust towards these departments: air your grievances, I'm sure a lot of us are interested.
> There is no chance I would let a university humanities department anywhere near my children at this point.
Universities tend to admit adults. Also, if your children go into university, are you going to refuse to pay for their general courses? They're going to have to touch a literature or history course eventually. Are you going to forbid them from taking 3 credit hours of Spanish?
What exactly is the university to do while it pondering the issue?
There are wonderful resources for getting a liberal education today. More than ever, in fact, and far less expensive than ever as well.
They just have nothing to do with going into a humanities department.
What's the point of using a forum for discussion if you're just going to make vague assertions and never bother to back them up? You talk of fear and loathing, yet seemingly operate on visceral reaction given that you continually refuse/are unable to list your grievances.
For a general overview of the situation, Allan Blooms "The Closing of The American Mind" covers it far better than I (or almost anyone else) could.
