Someone needs to check their premise.
Around here, welders and oilfield truck drivers out earn the college grads. Kids right out of high school are making $150k/yr. Most degrees are worthless. Liberal arts? I’m not hiring.
It all comes back to what you major in. In general, people who get job and careers skills do well. Examples are those who major in accounting, nursing, engineering.
People who major in fields such as women’s studies are not getting job or career credentials in the process. There is simply no demand in the job markets for women’s studies majors.
It’s also the result of a government subsidized education system, By subsidizing the education system, it has made on-the-job training more expensive by comparison and, consequently, the business community will not train most of it’s workers. Most jobs don’t really need two or four year degrees to do their jobs, if employees can get their training while working.
I cannot argue that this is what college has turned into, i.e., job training. Once upon a time the purpose of college was to educate people.
Short and sweet, they’re are too many college graduates out there with degrees in non-marketable skills who, by all rights, have the mental ability to do only those jobs we are bringing in illegal aliens to do. Higher education IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY. Someone with a degree in Angry French, Lesbian Women Studies/Basketweaving isn’t something employers are really looking for. Colleges and Universities should be prohibited from offering these types of degrees. If it isn’t a marketable skill, these schools shouldn’t be allowed to waste money teaching this garbage. It’s time for “comprehensive college and university reform”. Tuition rates are “skyrocketing” to teach this useless garbage and no one is doing anything about it.
That's where the blame lies.
The best education for the money is from the School of Hard Knocks.
The one time I have agreed with Obama. Of course, he had to apologize because the liberals went nuts. LOL
“Here’s what he said: “[A] lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career. But I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree. Now, nothing wrong with an art history degree — I love art history. So I don’t want to get a bunch of emails from everybody. I’m just saying you can make a really good living and have a great career without getting a four-year college education as long as you get the skills and the training that you need.”
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/31/obama-becomes-latest-politician-criticize-liberal-arts-discipline#ixzz34f2MLlGb
Inside Higher Ed
At the end of 5, 6 or more of fun filled years at party central, a significant number of students are awarded a bachelors degree of entitlement which employers are failing to honor.
The new victim class, expecting employers to bow to their masters: the bureaucrat parents of those victims.
Our kids knew EXACTLY what majors they would get help with and which ones they were on their own for.
They listened.
College seems to be the new system to keep the serfs in line. Graduate with huge loans to repay. Work any job diligently to pay the loan back and support a family. No time to question the BS coming out of DC or on the MSM.
Maybe indentured servant would be a better term.