The humanities have lost their prestige, funding, identity, and public purpose. Many metrics attest to crisis on undergraduate and graduate levels in the United States: low enrollments in humanities courses; decline in the number of majors; fewer degrees earned; the loss of positions; fewer graduate training programs; lower numbers of tenure-track jobs advertised and poor academic job markets.
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Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson (2018) studied this question.