Students are pressured by families and cultural norms into choosing business, engineering, and preprofessional majors over those in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences. Meanwhile, universities search incessantly for ways to trim costs by compressing time to degree and making extensive use of summer and online courses taught by casual academic labor, moves that in turn exert pressure to trim breadth and general-education requirements and also discourage double majors—the latter is significant, because many public-university students currently finesse the "practicality" problem by combining a preprofessional major with one in the arts or humanities.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 372