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Chronicle of Higher Education

February 28, 2010

The distress signals are sounding for the liberal arts. Again. Enrollment statistics show that more than half of all undergraduates now choose majors in business, engineering, or nursing. On some campuses, budget pressures are squeezing disciplines like German and philosophy into exile or extinction. But there's another side to this picture. Welcome to the new liberal arts. (Part of a special report on "The Future of Liberal Arts.")

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