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Actually, and this is a fact, the US Government, through its DOL Regulatory Agency and the Justice Department, have, for years, been anxious to do away with an employer's right to require a diploma or degree.

The same is true of an employer's right to run criminal background checks and refusal to hire applicants who have hot hits on those checks.

Liberals hang their hats on the age old 'disparate impact' theory, claiming that degree requirements and criminal background checks tend to weed out blacks at a higher rate than whites.

And that has nothing to do with the value of a degree or the discipline/school in which it was received.

The goal of the liberal hold-overs in those federal agencies, the NAACP and the ACLU is to restrict employers' hiring practices to whoever comes into the lobby first, with, of course special preference for people of color. And, of course, schools that administer certain forms of discipline must be required to discipline the same (or more) number of whites as blacks.

Don Drane you are exactly right but you will never convince Bill Crawford of these facts.

I can assure you that this will be a nightmare for the college scam program as it reaches mainstream

This also factors into the PERS problem. If the state will pay new grads 35K when market rate is 50k not only does it make getting anyone worth having apply hard it also doesn't contribute much to the system.

Most people that tell you not to get a college degree have a college degree. They like being your boss.

I know some state workers who are very bright and work very hard. I know other state workers who are lazy and would be overpaid with a 50% pay cut. Yet they whine about how hard they work. We need more accountability to cut the workers who are lazy and increase the salaries of those who truly contribute.

Let private schools and private employers do what they want. But I suspect if public universities would simply do away with economically unfeasible degree programs across the board, that would make a big difference in Mississippi. Also worth more than a mention is that student loans should be predicated on courses of study likely to not only pay off the loan, but sustain the recipient for an employment career. In other words, no public money for mostly Leftist studies that nobody would willingly pay you to do.

I'm a graduate of a Mississippi community college and university and was fortunate to not take loans out. My job would probably pay more elsewhere but I've stayed in the state and generally don't regret the decision (most days).

That being said I know of students who entered college, borrowed money just because it was available, then either dropped out by choice or were forced to for family or personal reasons. Those are the students who generally have difficulty paying back loans, not those who graduate with a degree. Of course, there are also those students who get degrees in areas where there is a true lack of available jobs or find themselves in careers like teaching or social work that pay very little yet they owe lots of money.

The dumbing down of America continues. Equity not excellence.

I’m a recent federal retiree and watched in dismay as my agency adopted an attitude of “anybody can do any job”. In practice this was more like “anybody can be paid for any job” and it worked for a while until the ratio of competent workers to incompetent ones fell too low for the competent ones to pick up all the slack.

You're right, 12:18. But the gaggle of geese who make up our state legislature and who are much smarter than commoners like you and me, have started hanging their hat on "But the retirement is attractive".

Show me a 22-year-old college graduate who is looking at retirement 45 years in the future who is willing to accept a job that's 30% to 45% lower than market, betting on the come of a speculative and highly volatile retirement almost half a century down the road.

Regardless of Young Shad's advertisements, he will not attract and retain anybody at state salary unless they didn't learn basic math tables.

If you can’t pay cash for it, didn’t get a scholarship, or don’t have benevolent benefactors (ie parents or grandparents paying for it), then no, it’s probably not worth it unless you’ve got a slam dunk plan to justify taking debt.

The government spent millions on public information campaigns and student grants with the goal of enrolling as many students as possible in colleges and universities. Over time, the trade industry began to suffer. Now the government admits that not everyone is college material and wants to walk back what it pushed for, and go in another direction. A similar thing has happened in the auto industry. The government EPA forces automakers to make specific changes in how they build vehicles, and when that results in the vehicle being less reliable, that same government forces the automaker to issue a recall. The government swings a stick, but never pays the tab.

@ 8:29 - That's what happens when people vote Left and when you have popular elections for US senators instead of having them appointed by the state legislatures.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-colleges-cutting-majors-slashing-040120430.html

Modern day US education, another leftist Democrat lives destroying scam.

What percentage of Democrats that can afford private school tuition instead send their kids to the public schools they destroy? Public school advocate Matt Damon sure didn’t, did he?

Plenty of working families that were unable to afford college on the hook now for the Biden Harris vote buying student loan forgivingness add it to the debt scheme.

Are these so-called educators and opinion writers too stupid to understand the laws of nature i.e. supply and demand, or just corrupt enough to believe 6 figure student loans are ok for degrees that don’t offer adequate returns on said 6 figure college experience?

Regardless, the HVAC, electricians, plumbers, appliance repair folk making multiple 6 figure annual incomes sure are thankful for the supply demand imbalance.

An education has more value than the money you make later.
That not only includes not embarrassing yourself publicly with declarations that are ridiculous but helping you make better choices in daily living so as to avoid being duped by con men.
It not only opens doors socially, but also opens windows to the world.
In a college or university you meet others from different places and realize not all people or places are just like the place you grew up and "different" is not necessarily bad.
It helps wake excited to do your work, instead of having to work just to stay alive .
It helps you lead and not depend on others for your future.
It helps you know the difference between the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
And, it keeps you from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations.
I say this having more than a few family members and friends who thought they could just run the family farm or business just by having worked for dad or they sell the family business and think they could live off their " inheritance" forever and maintain the same lifestyle. Indeed, two lost Wallstreet listed corporations through hostile takeovers and another lost 10's of millions in less than a decade in 1978 when a million was still "rich". Now you need more than a million to maintain a middle class lifestyle in retirement with zero debt.
And, IF the HVAC, electricians, plumbers and appliance repair folk are making 6 figures, they could be making 7 if they ran the business and had more employees working for them and what will happen when they get too old or too sick to work. They will have need the good fortune of wise investments to grow their savings or else their kids who worked for themselves only now have to take care of two families, not just one.
The first sentence in a finance text book is " If you have others manage your money for you, they are managing it to make money for themselves". And, that last sentence is one of the biggest hints about why you feel you have lost ground economically in this country.

The Universities will not do away with, or scale back the degrees with a low Return on Investment(IE: the moneys you spent on the degree vs the salary you make) until and unless the government stops the money train of the student loan. Make the loans dis-chargeable in bankruptcy. If those that gave out the loans thought they would not be paid back, they wouldn't make the loan. Stop making GOVERNMENT Backed Student loans. Ole Miss, State, Southern and all the other schools out there would be a lot less expensive if they didn't have a flood of government backed loans where every Tom Dick or Harry is competing for the limited slots at the universities. Go back to when the university was there to provide an education, not an experience. At a recent incoming freshman event, the University Spokesperson was bragging about all the "FREE" stuff that the students could do while at the University. As a Dad that was paying for all this FREE stuff I took exception to that comment and told my kid that they were there to get an education, get out and get a job. That free stuff is expensive and made getting a degree even more costly.

If people in Mississippi voted 'Left', we would not have republican US senators, notwithstanding the fact that republican governors have appointed the last two.

You wanta talk about useless degrees, look at the thousands of people who graduate from law school and either fail the bar or never intend to take it. All that degree is good for is propping up an argument on Facebook.