Even on second thought,,, not even sure that sounds great for then. In a time when science was working toward sending a person to the moon, the highway system was being designed and built, cites expanding by leaps and bounds, skyscrapers, aviation, ,,, oh man all the exciting things happening in the 50’s and 60’s. –and then there was English Lit.
No wonder why you’re Grumpy.

When I started college in the 1950’s the purpose of an education was to educate. It was expected that job training was done either by employers, or through the pursuit of additional education which was job training in its orientation. My classmates went on to become both professional and non-professional workers and some entered the arts (music, artists, writers), and some became stay-at-home parents. Some became farmers, working either their families land, or entering into that activity as a new venture. We number no millionaire among us, and no paupers. We do number happy, well-informed, culturally appreciative folks.

Want to learn history? pick-up a book.

Why would anyone want to spend $20,000 a year to get a History degree?

The old days of family money sending “Junior” to a university to frat around with other rich kids to learn about Greek mythology, poetry, and master literature are gone.

Middle America needs job skills. “Education” is a luxury.

Clearly the success of CWI is meeting a felt need among the population. The impression it leaves is that not only do students look to the price/value of the two campuses in an only bottom line, not academic reputation manner; but, that BSU’s dropping of traditional liberal arts classes, such as the deep cuts to the History
Department, indicates, once again, that schools of higher education are no long devoted to higher education. Their focus seems to be on non-Vo-Tec job training preparation, not true higher education. All in pursuit of dollars, not the responsibility to educate.