Today we celebrated our graduating students, listed in the program for the first time by major. (This had the salubrious effect that the very first name is a student I've worked with, reassuring in what was otherwise, as in every year, a parade of strangers.) I guess this information is easy to find anyway, but today it inspired me to try a piechart of our college. While we don't offer majors available in larger places (and only 2 of 369 students majored in natural sciences - the unmarked section at one minute to midnight), the national trend away from the humanities is clear here too, mitigated only by the large number of students in the arts, which would be clearer still if the breakdown reflected that the great majority of LitStudies are writing rather than literature concentrators. I encounter students from all these concentrations, if fitfully, and help all the folks in the peach-colord segment design their majors.
