The claim is a dishonest claim. First, vocational school students take out loans. Second, we taxpayers have long paid for “educating others” at all levels. State constitutions across the country mandate states to provide primary and secondary education. And, of course, the origins of publicly funded higher education lie in landed universities.
Matthew Body
Credit: Peggy Cozart
Credit: Peggy Cozart
Matthew Body
Credit: Peggy Cozart
Credit: Peggy Cozart
Intellectuals who argue that student loan forgiveness is unfair because welders pay for other people’s education ignore the fact that: We’ve all paid for that education, but less and less. Over the decades, you may have heard that state budget makers across the United States have slowly but surely withdrawn higher education. and expenses were pushed up.
Georgia continues to be lucky, with about 50% of its major schools’ budget coming from the state budget. Also, the smaller the school, the higher the percentage. But the University of Georgia system recently ended special institutional fees for millions of schools that started in 2009, which the UGA called a “key component” of its budget. I just ended that fee because I got a lot of money.
This tax and spending element hides an implicit attack on the claim to higher education as education. You can see it in the Babylon Bee headline. DeSantis also states: in gender studies. He added that “gender studies” is a worthless degree.
From there, the discourse became goofy as people started making college majors. for example, “Cat Gender Studies” Not an undergraduate major. And despite what Colorado Rep. Lauren Boubert thinks, “Lesbian Dance Theory” Also, it’s not a college major. I applaud Christian Walker, Herschel’s adult son, for his creativity. Graduates of “Medieval Gender Studies” claimed to be unemployed. Since they don’t exist, they are indeed unemployed.
For the record, 0.4% awarded a university degree in “Regional, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender and Group Studies” Of the 2 million university degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
The bigger debate about worthy college degrees is nothing new. I’m an English professor, I know. There is a reason why I majored in journalism instead of English 20 years ago.
But now we have data to debunk the myths about English and other “worthless” majors. It has provided a limited but important view of what we will be doing in the next few years. It is limited because it only includes people who are And, of course, I should add that the direct line between a “high paying job” and a college major is a myth.
First, when it comes to majors, gender studies isn’t the right label. Georgia offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in “Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” One student the school spotlighted on its website dropped out of college as a business major, was unsatisfied and had no intention of returning. One of the lessons, ”says, ”is that college is not just a path to securing a career, but a holistic and lifelong endeavor to critical and creative thinking…”.
Contrary to some tweets, Women’s Studies graduates are getting jobs and making good money after a few years. According to USG data, these graduates earn an average of about $60,000 after her ten years. Her website at UGA Women’s Studies lists several companies and organizations that alumni work for, including the Red Cross, Girl Her Scouts, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
Nurses are slightly better, earning an average of about $72,000 over the same period. Also, while business degrees are listed in multiple lists in the data, graduates with a “general” business bachelor’s degree earn about $60,000. 10 years later. Ten years after graduation, English majors earn almost $50,000.
These numbers may surprise you. Maybe social media doesn’t give you the full picture of your college major. Also, nostalgia for my college days (perhaps when I used a part-time job to pay for my tuition and graduated with little to no debt) may be limiting my understanding of the current crisis. Hmm. Check out the “Cost of Attendance” on the USG’s new website.
We are not asking you to agree to a debt forgiveness as a matter of policy. But you might consider dismissing the kid who wants to major in English.
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