December 5, 2008
Except for engineering grads, college graduates face a bad market.
This was published in the Christian Science Monitor (December 4).
It is misleading. It says that we must produce more college grads -- the standard pro-college guild mantra. On the contrary, we need far fewer. We need more plumbers and craftsmen.
At the end, the article reports:
Except in fields such as engineering, many employers demand a college degree as "a screening mechanism, [because] there's such a glut of college graduates that there's no point even bothering to interview people who don't have a college degree," says George Leef, director of research at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, a conservative-leaning reform group in Raleigh, N.C. Colleges need to focus on quality of learning, not quantity of graduates, he says.
He has it right.
Half of college students do not graduate in six years. Add 50% to the price of a degree. If they graduate -- over half do not -- the job market is terrible.
Don't pay retail for college. I keep repeating this.
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