[Jonty30]

College needs to go. It should be as simple as showing up and writing all the necessary tests an industry needs to show competence and, upon passing with a sufficient grade, give the applicant a job.

[PapaBear3625]

College needs to go. It should be as simple as showing up and writing all the necessary tests an industry needs to show competence and, upon passing with a sufficient grade, give the applicant a job.

That's how it used to be.

Then the Supreme Court decreed, in Griggs v Duke Power(1970) that any test which has blacks passing at a lower rate than whites is illegal discrimination. So companies instead started demanding college degrees.

Pass a law that says testing is not illegal discrimination, and the whole college establishment comes crashing down.

[17th Miss Regt]

It should be as simple as showing up and writing all the necessary tests an industry needs to show competence and, upon passing with a sufficient grade, give the applicant a job.

I agree. However, the Griggs vs. Duke Power case about 50 years ago made it extremely difficult to do this as the aptitude tests had a "disparate impact" on minorities. So now a college degree is used in place of such tests.