[originalbuckeye]

Gov Brewer (R-AZ) wants to appoint a Regent to the ASU board who believes that we should eliminate all College majors that will not reasonably allow the student to find a job. Black Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies, etc. Why pay for the education when you won't be able to get a job unless it's teaching your worthless major at a college/university? The appointee is being fought tooth and nail by the Progressives.

[MrB]

“Black Studies, Women’s Studies, Asian Studies, etc”

Use the general term “Grievance Studies” to describe these majors and watch a lib turn purple.

[muawiyah]

Most all of your East Asian studies programs in this country consist of linguistics (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), history, religion and usually economics.

Assuming a student has a couple of common East Asian languages under his belt, these are graduate level programs and the folks going after the degrees already have jobs that put them in close contact with East Asian people who may or may not also speak English, but who live in those countries and do business with the United States.

So why is Brewer down on Asian studies? Does she imagine Asia will disappear from American trade interests?

I certainly hope she doesn't imagine Asian Studies to be something like Women's studies where all a guy needs to do to find out all about that is go on a hot date eh!

[Jim Noble]

Gov Brewer (R-AZ) wants to appoint a Regent to the ASU board who believes that we should eliminate all College majors that will not reasonably allow the student to find a job

Like English and Philosophy?

I'm an English major with a minor in Philosophy. I've been a physician for >30 years and I would say that's a reasonable job.

Actually, my major-minor prepared me very well for the work I do. Medical school is for the nuts and bolts stuff.

The issue isn't liberal arts (of course, it goes without saying that any "discipline" invented since 1968 should be eliminated) - the issue is way, way too many "students" going to college.

Liberal arts, properly done, makes smart people better people. Liberal arts are not ABOUT finding you a job.

[BfloGuy]

we should eliminate all College majors that will not reasonably allow the student to find a job

That's just knee-jerk dumb.

Politicians should keep out of this other than to cut spending at state schools. College is not just a jobs-training center. If someone wants to waste his life on black studies that should be up to him.

It's interesting just which sorts of government intervention supposed conservatives support.

[Lancey Howard]

Graduating with a degree in “Black Studies” qualifies the graduate to do exactly one thing - - teach “Black Studies”.