True, conservatives fail to conserve anything -- least of all the traditional liberal arts education.
From what I have seen, the studies did supplant the old humanities, general ed. survey courses (which were the backbone of that department)...and yes, this has largely been due to what you are talking about. Those studies courses are Marxist through and through, but the colleges are after money -- and they know that STEM, healthcare, and business (the 'serious' degrees) plus studies (the "non-serious' courses/degrees) get them that.
There are some hold outs, but for how long is anyone's conjecture -- my money would be on "not for too much longer at this rate".
I don't know about the colleges in your state/area, but here the studies have become part of the gen. ed. curriculum -- you don't have to take the traditional humanities courses, you can opt to take a studies class (besides, you've got to take a diversity class anyway, so why not kill two birds? and the studies classes are notoriously easy to pass -- if you can cope with cheering on the invariable indoctrination).
Like I said: the humanities were never supposed to be large; there isn't that much need for many specialists in those fields; the bulk of courses, the real reason for the humanities to exist, were required gen. ed. courses (and the traditional ones served a good purpose), and sometimes as a minor (I believe the President has a humanities minor to go along with his business major). But most people don't like having to take them (done right, they aren't cream puff classes), the corporate (and international) sponsors don't give money for them, and the colleges don't give a shit so here we are.
True, conservatives fail to conserve anything -- least of all the traditional liberal arts education. From what I have seen, the studies did supplant the old humanities, general ed. survey courses (which were the backbone of that department)...and yes, this has largely been due to what you are talking about. Those studies courses are Marxist through and through, but the colleges are after money -- and they know that STEM, healthcare, and business (the 'serious' degrees) plus studies (the "non-serious' courses/degrees) get them that.
There are some hold outs, but for how long is anyone's conjecture -- my money would be on "not for too much longer at this rate".
"Studies" doesn't make them much money at all, few students enroll in those classes or programs
I don't know about the colleges in your state/area, but here the studies have become part of the gen. ed. curriculum -- you don't have to take the traditional humanities courses, you can opt to take a studies class (besides, you've got to take a diversity class anyway, so why not kill two birds? and the studies classes are notoriously easy to pass -- if you can cope with cheering on the invariable indoctrination).
Like I said: the humanities were never supposed to be large; there isn't that much need for many specialists in those fields; the bulk of courses, the real reason for the humanities to exist, were required gen. ed. courses (and the traditional ones served a good purpose), and sometimes as a minor (I believe the President has a humanities minor to go along with his business major). But most people don't like having to take them (done right, they aren't cream puff classes), the corporate (and international) sponsors don't give money for them, and the colleges don't give a shit so here we are.