DEFUNDING UNDERPERFORMING MAJORS: The Great Academic Purge. “At this point, I feel the need to remind everyone involved that there was a time in which colleges and universities and benefactors could not rely on the federal government to pay for kids to learn art history. Federal financial aid for the arts wasn’t even a thing until about 50 or so years ago. Before then, universities themselves and even some self interested, wealthy alumni would help make ends meet for arts and humanities departments. They also didn’t have a 4:1 administrator to professor ratio back then either.”

Given that those underperforming majors promote civil unrest, it’s just sound government to chop them.