[Julien]

I do hear of people with more than $100K in debt for a BA...and honestly have to question what in the heck they were thinking, or who was selling them a bill of goods at the college they attended. Some degrees are worth the debt, and some simply aren't.[/QUOTE]

I totally agree with this, in this economy it isn't worth it to go into the humanities or the arts, for example, because getting a career in these fields is much more difficult to achieve. I can see the universities get their funding for these areas cut back because of the lack of demand or need. Other fields such as business and the sciences are more stable than these fields of study. It is not enough to love your area of study and making it your life's work. You must work in this economy to make a life and that excludes some areas of study which is a pity because I believe when we lose the Humanities and Art we lose our humanity.