In a higher education landscape where career prospects are the top priority for most students, humanities degrees face a fundamental challenge. “The major isn’t named the same name as a job,” says Thor Sawin, vice president for academic affairs and dean of language schools at Middlebury College. Indeed, a French major can’t easily walk out of commencement and into a job as a Frenchist in the way that a science major can walk into a job as a scientist.