Mississippi state auditor calls some college degrees "indoctrination factories" "useless" "garbage"

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mississippi-auditor-college-majors-indoctrinate-students-defunded-103378914

Auditor says several college majors indoctrinate students and should be defunded
Mississippi's state auditor says numerous social science and humanities degree programs are “indoctrination factories.”

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In a report published Tuesday, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, a Republican, argued that the state should change its approach to funding its public universities. He proposed tying public investment to workforce needs instead of providing funds without regard for the degree programs, as has traditionally been the case. Too many college graduates are leaving Mississippi, and aligning degree programs with labor market demand might stem the tide, White said.

In numerous statements on social media leading up to the report's publication, White said there should be no taxpayer funding for “useless degrees" in “garbage fields” like Urban Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, German Literature, African American Studies, Gender Studies and Women's Studies. Claiming some academic programs are hotbeds of political radicalization, White's statements and his report arrive as education, from K-12 to the university level, remains at the center of America's culture wars.

[Think. Again.]

1. This jackass doesn't know...

...that trump university went out of business years ago?

[RKP5637]

2. He doesn't get it, maybe they leave because they don't like Mississippi. It's not exactly a

"go to" place. His concept of “useless degrees" illustrates his ignorance and stupidity.

[spooky3]

4. And, maybe those "useless" degrees help them get good jobs elsewhere. Nt

[RKP5637]

15. Yep!!! n/t

[Haggard Celine]

6. That's what it boils down to, in most cases.

Lots of people get sick of Mississippi in their early years and are determined to leave when they get old enough. It just doesn't pay to stay.

[gratuitous]

3. And nowhere in that list of garbage fields is the word "football"

Because suffering from CTE is guaranteed path to a life of fame and riches, right Mr. White?

[Wonder Why]

10. How dare you compare "Sports Education" to those lowlife majors. (sarcasm)

[AllaN01Bear]

5. hem. i havebeen using that a lot lately. as bugs bunny would say, what an ignroamoous.

[roamer65]

7. The first word of your post's title says it all.

Mississippi.

[DonCoquixote]

8. in short

"if I do not understand it, I kill it." and you wonder why people leave your state.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. This guy's a Rhodes Scholar and a Harvard JD. You can take the boy out of Mississippi but...

It's funny how travel and education just doesn't open some minds like it does with most.

[Wonder Why]

11. His name is "White". Possibly he's a Road Scholar" aka "hobo" too!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that reference.

[struggle4progress]

13. Ole Miss needs a major in how to sell insurance and one in how to sell tractors!

They should start a class for folk on how to live on the poverty wages you'll get doing home care

And a class on how to drive forklifts.

Learn to pick cotton! Learn to lead chain-gang songs!

[albacore]

14. Republicans don't like higher ed. Period.

We know why, too.