Should Colleges Let Ailing Majors Die or Revamp Them?

5/22/2018

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Chronicle of Higher Education (May 20) -- When majors aren’t thriving, you can soup them up or let them go. Both tactics are complicated, and neither carries a guarantee. But, say administrators, doing nothing is not an option. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is updating and reinvigorating a number of traditional majors by combining them with computer science. The reasoning is that liberal-arts, arts, and agricultural fields increasingly encompass data analysis that requires computer-science skills.


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This story was published May 22, 2018.