How colleges are changing as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle

I feel like to some extent, this more so a societal change in how we view universities: before, they were playgrounds for wealthy people to network and learn the shibboleth's required for high-society (i.e., a classical education), meanwhile we now view university as a gateway to middle-class jobs. I think this is especially present in Canadian schools, where schools have started to almost exclusively focus on pre-professional programs like business or pre-med majors, at the expense of humanities.

There still is demand for learning about the humanities, just look at the Military Colleges in the States where a good portion of officer cadets major in humanities, versus the sciences. I would also be curious to see how many people have started to minor in the humanities and major in STEM. I personally know quite a few people who did that. It's just that the focus on career prospects and purpose of university has completely changed.

I wonder how this will affect culture; so many of our great cultural works come from people who studied a classical education, but now even the humanities are so focused on job prospects that this is going away.

It doesn't help that things like ChatGPT and AI in general make things more blurry. People keep hearing about how ChatGPT will replace both writers and programmers. Which path is one supposed to choose? And trade school/physical work isn't for everyone.

i feel like with gpt it's go time for the humanities. they finally have a real p-zombie. capitalism is jumping the shark. there's now an ai schelling point for political and judicial decisions.