Save university arts from the bean counters

Cutacks in non-science subjects by US colleges and universities are criticized. The arts and humanities have much to offer higher education, and the bean counters who want to slash them must be stopped before higher education is itself destroyed.

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Published in	Nature (London) Vol. 468; no. 7327; p. 1003
Main Author	Petsko, Gregory
Format	Journal Article
Language	English
Published	London Nature Publishing Group UK 23.12.2010 Nature Publishing Group
Subjects	706/648/264 706/648/453 706/689/126/506 Budgeting Education Fine arts Funding Higher education Humanities Humanities - education Humanities and Social Sciences Humans multidisciplinary Science Science (multidisciplinary) Universities - economics Universities - ethics Universities - organization & administration Universities - standards world-view
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ISSN	0028-0836 1476-4687 1476-4687
DOI	10.1038/4681003a

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Summary:	Cutacks in non-science subjects by US colleges and universities are criticized. The arts and humanities have much to offer higher education, and the bean counters who want to slash them must be stopped before higher education is itself destroyed.
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ISSN:	0028-0836 1476-4687 1476-4687
DOI:	10.1038/4681003a