york. history department chairs at suny campuses. approximately half said their enrollments were up. i'm not sure that's rent is necessarily continuing or going to continue. clearly, there were declines in enrollments -- more than the humanities. something to do with a sense among many people that these are useless majors. --hink that has to do with in a difficult economy, people opposed about jobs as to careers. when you think about a job, you think about being taught how to do something specific that has a specific job. when you think about a career, you think about the skills that allows you to do five different jobs over the next 25 years. history prepares opposed to careers. when you think about a you for a career. susan: one of the avenues for history majors is also the law schools. not much use for lawyers as digitization is happening. how is that folding into the history? james: i think lawyers are going up, but that made just be in d.c. we think probably the decline in demand for lawyers has had an impact on history majors. there is a big difference between history majors a