Nebraskans advocate the benefits of agriculture degrees
22.05.12
Surrounded by Husker memorabilia and images of family and past students, Steven Waller, the dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, trails off mid-sentence.
"How on earth ..." is as far as Waller gets before he stops for a moment, "A college degree should never be considered useless."
Waller is referring to a Yahoo! article that went viral in January, titled "College Majors That are Useless ."
It started in April 2011 when dailybeast.com, formerly Newsweek.com, ran a Web layout of pictures and statistics that listed 20 college degrees the author felt were "useless."
The degrees listed were: journalism, horticulture, agriculture, advertising, fashion design, child and family studies, music, mechanical engineering technology, chemistry, nutrition, human resources, theater, art history, photography, literature, art, fine art, psychology, English and animal science.
Sometime after this, Terence Loose an author, writer and occasional contributor to Yahoo! content, wrote a short article for Yahoo!'s education page, which outlined the uselessness of five of the degrees listed on the Daily Beast's website: agriculture, fashion design, theater, horticulture and animal science.
Source: Daily Nebraskan