“A bold, Texas-style solution,” the governor said in an address to the Legislature. “I’m challenging our institutions of higher education to develop bachelor’s degrees that cost no more than $10,000, including textbooks.”
The amount is about a quarter of what students at the University of Texas and Texas A&M pay for tuition and books. An organization formed to fight the changes, Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education, counts among its members power Republicans such as TRT Holdings Chief Executive Robert Rowling, who gave $1 million to the conservative “super PAC” American Crossroads. Handling media for the group former George W. Bush adviser Karen Hughes, the Post reported.
Nonetheless, some of Perry’s higher-education ideas could be catching on elsewhere. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he was passing on a list of higher education reform ideas from Texas known as the “Seven Breakthrough Solutions” to candidates for the Florida university and college boards of trustees, the Post reported.
The article you posted had not a mention of Texas or Perry in it, why did you even post it.
Don’t you think you might confine your posts to ones that directly discuss what Perry has done, instead of altering the heading with, (Rick Perry’s push for reform),
Desperation is unbecoming......
These #OWS idiots rack up $100,000 in debt for a useless environmental or womens' studies degree, and then blame WALL STREET when the graduate and realize there are no jobs for that nonsense, because there is no USE for anyone who studies such unchallenging dreck. Rick Scott is dead right. America need ENGINEERS and other key studies. If you want a degree in anthropology, you'd better have a trust fund, because you sure can't count on a decent paying job offer for that nonsense.
According to the Miami Herald, liberal arts majors represent a small slice of all Florida undergraduate degrees: 4.7 percent.
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4.7% of undergrads that don’t lend to manufacturing knowhow in engineering, math, CompSci, ...
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According to the American Anthropology Association, about 64 percent of those with a graduate degree in anthropology find a job within 12 months of graduating.
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“Find a job” probably in academia, or teaching, which amounts to recycling globally useless knowledge for another generation.
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Staff members from USF’S Department of Anthropology say it’s considered one of the best
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Totally biased source.
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in the country and has been a consistent job creator for Tampa and the state of Florida.
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“Job creator” so far as taxes are confiscated from small business and home owners.
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“I think it’s an impressionist, anecdotal statement based on perhaps the stereotype of anthropology as a discipline that studies underwater basket weaving or something like that. It bears no relation to reality.”
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I knew someone who majored in Anthropology: She was super smart, but she needed to go to medical school to be employable.
I am not employable because of the easy peazy paper writing fluffy poof classes I took to get my college degree.
I am employable because I am a C/C++ software developer, with Perl, 3D rendering, network programming, system administration, web development, and database programming under by belt.
“Natalie Odom is majoring in mass communications. She says, “I think it’s awful because not everyone has an interest in math and science...”
Natalie is a moron. She can’t figure that she CAN get her degree in mass comm and also study science or engineering. Degreed mass communication majors should have the ability to write about science.
She could be a highly qualified writer who specializes in science and make a bundle. Good science writers can name their own price for writing literate and scientifically acurate articles.
Let’s give Natalie a big DUH!!! She’s a honking liberal and too stupid to figure that out.
You’ll get quite an education just reading the comments left at that site by some Kool-Aid drinkers.
Hopefully Gov Scott won’t support subsidizing the education of illegal immigrants like Perry does.
Gov. Scott is talking about earning degrees in fields that lead to employment in the private sector with companies that actually create something of value (wealth).
He knows very well that degrees in Wymen’s Studies, Queer Studies, African Folk Art of the 18th Century, etc., etc. lead mostly to the unemployment line or, for a minority, to employment in the government or government subsidized organizations where wealth is absorbed, not created.
He is trying to direct people into productive areas of commerce so they don’t end up sleeping on the streets with Occupy Wall Street, whining that they can’t find jobs that utilize their skills.
The Governor deserves kudos instead of brickbats.
36% unemployment rate for advanced degrees, not just bachelors, after a full year, and they're proud? Sheesh.
I think a liberal arts degree should be valuable but it doesn't translate into job skills, and the dreck they teach today doesn't qualify as genuine liberal arts anyway.
One ideal is to get a good grounding in the genuine liberal arts and then go on to graduate study to specialize in a career field.
More gov't grants, giveaways and subsides lead to increased prices in education. It's immoral and stupid.