Colleges of the humanities may need to completely separate themselves from universities. The bloat of college tuition simply makes those fields of study uneconomical on a fundamental level, and it is only getting worse.

Choose, be in debt for most of the cost of a new house on graduation with no employment prospects, or major in something more focused? Yeah.

The professors of these programs are generally all old and simply riding out tenure to retirement, just like all boomers. And what will happen when they retire? I predict there won't be tenured professors in huge swathes of humanities, just adjuncts ... everywhere. Basically, TAs for whatever classes the revenue majors demand for at least SOME depth.

You may need to have entirely new institutions form around humanities without labs, housing, football stadiums, etc. Maybe they are adjacent/satellite to the main institutions. A throwback to basically what higher education used to be without the Oxford look. Basically, small cloister of students. And good lord, eliminate ALL the goddamn vampire management. Really, the professors will need it for getting any decent salary. Get rid of all those useless middle managers. Contract out teaching humanities to the big-fish university they are nearby.

And is this the hallmark of the breaking point of universities? I roll my eyes at humanities as much as another science guy, but they are still a living core of real higher education. Hollowing out humanities means the soul of a college is dead. It's just a bunch of grade-seeking premeds, MBAs, etc.

What does humanities need? A classroom, a blackboard, chalk. Even a big library isn't that necessary with internet resources.