Posted on 09/26/2023 3:52:07 AM PDT by CFW
Mississippi State Auditor Shad White is advocating for a major shift in funding for degree programs at public universities. He is aiming to redirect resources away from what he calls "garbage fields" like women's and African American studies, which often lead to graduates leaving the state.
A recent report from the Mississippi State Auditor's Office highlighted this push for change. It emphasized the importance of aligning college majors with workforce needs to address Mississippi's "brain drain" issue. This problem arises when college graduates leave the state in search of better job opportunities.
The report revealed that taxpayers invest the same amount in educating both electrical engineering and anthropology majors. However, graduates in electrical engineering earn over $71,000 annually in their Mississippi jobs, while anthropology graduates earn less than a third of that amount and often leave the state without contributing to its economy.
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I agree with you, if you want to get a degree in Engineering, Accounting, Business, Agriculture, etc...then you deserve a break in cost, if you want to get a degree in in world history, women’s studies, etc...you pay a real premium at the very least.
I agree with you, if you want to get a degree in Engineering, Accounting, Business, Agriculture, etc...then you deserve a break in cost, if you want to get a degree in in world history, women’s studies, etc...you pay a real premium at the very least.
“At university ‘garbage fields’” bttt
How about just stopping right here:
It’s way past time tax-payers stopped funding colleges.
How long before someone makes this about race… in three, two, one….
The woketardian cries of protests will soon be coming from the faculty of the “garbage fields” as well as the football and basketball coaches at those universities and colleges.
Agree. I would add that with the internet there are tremendous opportunities to educate yourself without spending large sums of money. Get off tictok and other social media and use the internet productively. The days when it was difficult to get a well-rounded general education and when a university education was one of the few ways to expand yourself and 'learn how to think critically' are over.
“It’s way past time tax-payers stopped funding colleges.”
Exactly. State schools make a fortune off of students then grift off of the taxpayers too.
A HUGE first step!
Now if they’d revamp the loans to allow people to default on student loans. . If they are unable to get a job in that field of study after X months and at what ever is determined to be “prevailing wage”.
Most of the “grievance study” type programs and “useless” PHDs in puppetry would have to be self financed. No Gov loans, no refunds.
It makes sense.
But right now, the funding in many places is just the opposite.
The schools (AZ e.g. in grad programs) raised tuition in fields where students can get real jobs (like medicine, engineering, etc) and keep the tuition low for useless degrees.
On the equity grounds - student ability to pay.
Useless degree cannot afford to pay tuition and will not even be able to pay off student debts.
Students with useful degrees can afford to pay, so the schools will charge them, proportionally to he expected life earnings.
Make sense economically, for schools to make money, but from the other view, it amounts of subsidizing worthless degrees.
I agree with the poster who said to stop funding universities. The problem isn’t the degrees offered, it’s administration pigs feeding at the public trough.
Students should decide how money is spent not administrations. If a state needs certain types of workers it can offer scholarships for those fields with strings attached ie- work in state for 5 years.
I graduated from the University of Florida, back when I was there, my parents who were schoolteachers could afford to pay for my education without going into debt.
The University of Florida, is a really large public school in Florida, it receives tons of funding from taxpayers and has a huge endowment.
Today, it’s really hard to get into the University of Florida academically for Florida residents, if you are fortunate enough to get in, it costs a fortune, I don’t see how that is possible.
The University of Florida has every major degree field you would want, they have Medical, Dental, and Veterinarian school, every major engineering degree around, a large building construction department, a huge agricultural department, there is something for everyone.
A major publicly funded University should be priced so that Florida residents can send their children to Florida and not be in huge debt when they graduate.
History, whether world or American, is an essential field of study. A knowledge if history, like common sense, is in short supply.
The government should compile and publish statistics on average salaries, 1 year and 5 years after graduation, broken down by major. Then use those stats to decide funding.
Garbage studies: Angry Studies” degree from Wassamatta U
A professional historian and I examined black history books that were used by Mississippi State back in the late 1980’s. They were written by historians that had been found to have falsified information and used secondary and tertiary sources in many of their interpretations of history surrounding the Civil War and the South. The writers were considered pariahs within the history community. We were aghast but there was nothing we could do about it and it continued at MSU. No wonder that many “college” blacks are so radical as they have been radicalized by the professors and biased books they were using at Universities.
It’s absolutely essential as part of the education process, but it’s not a field in demand for the education process.
IOWs, it certainly needs to be taught and taught in all aspects, but a degree in history is not much in demand and has a limited future unless you pursue a more advanced post-graduate degree versus say a degree in electrical or computer engineering.
It’s absolutely essential as part of the education process, but it’s not a field in demand for the education process.
IOWs, it certainly needs to be taught and taught in all aspects, but a degree in history is not much in demand and has a limited future unless you pursue a more advanced post-graduate degree versus say a degree in electrical or computer engineering.
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