Why are universities teaching literature?
Why are you (and the rest of the country) trying to stretch universities into simple trade schools, with simple, trade-school students?
If you want to learn how to drive a tractor-trailor truck or fix an HVAC system, there is no need to go anywhere near a college.
Likewise, it shouldn’t have become the norm for policemen, nurses, etc., to need four-year college degrees. Such students, like you, have no interest in literature and the like and there is no reason to force them to go into such debt and take traditional college classes.