Who Moved My Cheese? Sociology Program Enrollment

There is an excellent new paper out[1] on strategies for sociology programs to increase major numbers, a topic of the utmost timeliness for my own program. It's a great read. There is a gem at the end, though, that I had to share:

If students' selections of college majors are accurate reflections of current values, it is hard not to conclude that students now find mice to be more interesting than human beings (14).

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[1] Sweet, Stephen. 2015. "Hans O. Mauksch Address: How Departments Can Respond to the Changing Popularity of the Sociology Major" (PDF). Teaching Sociology 44(1):3-16.

h/t Stephanie McClure