Here’s a U professor of a so called “throw away degree” program. The number of people who get degrees in Geography is small, the job prospects slimmer than that, the largest classes in Geography were liberal education students (not sure what they’ve renamed the program to be, since the word “liberal” became verboten, politically.)
The Dunning-Kruger effect is so off-the-scales with the “college should prepare students for jobs” state leaders it’s seriously difficult to know where to start with them.
The Legislature will debate and come to some kind of compromise, and maybe they’ll cut Tom Cova and Geography’s funding without giving it a second thought.
I don’t need Dunning-Kruger to know there is a fatal flaw in its thinking.
The flaw - no one truly knows what jobs will be in demand in the future. Some occupations will change over time. And no occupation’s knowledge base is static. If Dunning-Kruger wasn’t as fatally flawed, Job Corp would’ve been a success model instead of a failed operation that taught occupations that were no longer in demand, or with trained skills that were outdated.
It is more important to be teaching people how to learn instead of creating an educational construct of what to learn. The current university system generally does a pretty good job of it.
It’s time for the Righteouslature and the Feds to worry about solving the revenue problem, because we have a revenue problem. Not a spending problem - a revenue problem.