I am a full professor in the sciences at an Ivy league school.
Yes, it is very frustrating dealing with the group-think of
colleagues in the humanities and social sciences. However,
please note that it is precisely these fields within the
University that have experienced the greatest decline in
student enrollment; have experienced the worst of the
budget crises; and whose prospects are bleakest. Rest
assured that the medical, business, and engineering
schools within these (and other) universities are not
intellectually corrosive: quite the opposite. There is good
reason for optimism about the state of the University, if
not the Humanities.