KY Gov suggests cutting degrees like interpretive dance

Campus Reform ^ | September 15, 2017 | Kyle Perisic

[C19fan]

Facing an estimated $200 million deficit, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) encouraged his state’s universities to cut unnecessary degree programs to help balance the state’s budget.

In a speech to the Conference on Postsecondary Education Trusteeship on Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, Bevin suggested that the universities and colleges could "find entire parts of your campus...that don't need to be there.”

[C19fan]

Gov. Bevin should terminate all degree programs that use the word "Studies" in it.

[Paulie]

Works for me.

But you know they won’t. If anything, it’ll be the real subjects that get cut.

And in any subject, it will be the white male professors who face the chopping block so as to ‘save money’. You can be sure of that.

Who will thy complain to - the EEOC?

[gibsonguy]

“Bevin should terminate all degree programs that use the word “Studies” in it.”

Yep, I remember our old friend Jesse Helms once said he wanted to de-fund any Govt. program that had the word diversity in it.

[jmaroneps37]

Wow! I could not agree more about “degrees” with the word “studies” in their title. I spent 16 years teaching in college classrooms and always thought “studies” was a sure tell that the degree was worthless. The poor kids that got sucked into one of these disasters are probably leading crews at some fast food place and not making enough to pay back their loans.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Gov. Bevin should terminate all degree programs that use the word 'Studies' in it. "

Great idea, and simple too.

I hope people realize that implementing the Governor's suggestion would be doing students, parents, and ultimately the state a great favor.

The favor is in saving students and parents from the crushing debt for an unmarketable degree. Eighteen-year olds don't have a clue about how the world works, and don't realize the lifetime economic implications of choosing a worthless degree.

I'm sure there is more than one struggling thirty-something spinster who wishes she had pursued anything but "interpretive dance".

 

[lakecumberlandvet]

Maybe we should terminate government funding of higher education altogether. The taxpayers are already fully funding K-12 public education. There are lots of private universities out there if someone wants to continue their education and they can figure out how to pay for it themselves.

[Rurudyne]

“Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.” — Ray Stantz

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"I remember our old friend Jesse Helms "

Oh how I miss him! They don't make 'em like Jesse anymore. I can only imagine what he'd say to Yertle.

We have a chance for another Jesse with Roy Moore, that is if his bid doesn't get derailed by President Trump riding that strange RINO train.
 

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if a move like that will upset NCAA recruiters who need programs like that to put big time athletes who can barely spell their names into?

[cyclotic]

I know a young lady who is in college now. Absolutely brilliant kid. She scored the second highest SAT ever in our state at 13.

The morons at her university wanted to make her take it again, as if she got stupider in the ensuing few years.

Her scholarship required her to take a Women’s Studies course.

Being incredibly smart with a strong Christian background and not afraid to be outspoken. she had the instructor tied in knots as she shot down most of her arguments and by the end of class had many of her classmates agreeing with her point of view.

It must have been fun to watch.

[lakecumberlandvet]

Kentucky currently has eight state supported universities - Eastern Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University, Morehead State University, Northern Kentucky University, Kentucky State University, Murray State University, University of Louisville, and University of Kentucky - as well as the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. And Kentucky also has some of the best private universities in the country. Do the taxpayers really need to continue spending their tax money on higher education? Eight universities? Give me a break. The money currently used to support these universities would be better used to fix the pension fund crisis.

[CMSMC]

Works for me. My pet peave is music performance degrees without a mandatory education secondary. I have several friends who went that route and are not qualified to teach music in a high school, so make their living either giving private lessons or working in a totally unrelated field. If a business did something like that, they’d be prosecuted for fraud.

[boycott]

My goodness. One of the most common-sense recommendations I’ve seen from a politician in a very long time. I hope other governors are paying attention.

[Rurudyne]

If they did that where would McDonalds get college educated burger flippers from?

[Rurudyne]

For professors getting paid to teach interpretative dancing tweaking is the only honest interpretive dancing....

[Rurudyne]

“Twerking” ...

[Ben Ficklin]

Does this apply to studies such as art and music as well as dance?

Dancing is a very good career path for women who want to own/operate a dance studio which can be a very lucrative business. I know this to be a fact because 4 generations of women in my family did it. One of my sisters had a degree in dance.

And if a woman just wants to be a teacher, she will make very good wages and can make a decent living working part-time

I don't think that colleges still teach Home Economics but I remember from the early 60s the local Junior college offering a 2 year associate degrees in how to operate and manage a household.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It took three generations, but the left has created a direct redistribution of taxpayer funds to propaganda mills known as achedemia. Federal student loans is the last piece of the ponzie scheme.

We can’t even get a frigin wall built.

[Fiji Hill]

Dance is a branch of music, which is one of the classical Seven Liberal Arts (grammar, arithmetic, geometry, logic, rhetoric, music, astrology), so I’m OK with studying the subject at the college level.

[dfwgator]