大多数美国大学坚持要求学生在选择专业之前,必须先学习自然科学、社会科学、语言和文学。
Most American universities insist that students sample natural and social sciences, languages and literature before choosing a field of concentration.
“比方说,你知道的,这是我曾经教过的最优秀的学生。”哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特校区的社会科学家、多元性官员库亥里·杜特说道。
"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus.
相反,教育的缩减相对较少,尽管大学中研究人性和社会科学的基金会减少,但是到2015年,每年给学校的预算都会增长。
Education, by contrast, got off relatively lightly, with the budget for schools to rise every year until 2015, although funding for humanities and social-science subjects at universities will fall.
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