It was not the departments of law, finance and engineering that caused the end of liberal arts requirements. It was the liberal arts themselves, when they threw out the books that the last twenty generations had found most enlightening and elevating and replaced them with identity-political garbage. If you remove Moby D!ck from the syllabus in favor of the Color Purple and replace Milton with Rigoberta Menchu, you can't complain if students don't want to go into debt taking your department's courses.