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And let’s face it, a lot of the state funded universities shouldn’t be teaching half of the subjects they are teaching.. They aren’t necessarily generating people who are employable in the modern economy… I don’t understand, for example, if state funding supports college “degrees” in things such as shakespearian history or the likes…. how that is necessarily a good use of state dollars to training our younger generation of tomorrow….

Maybe some of the increased costs will make people think twice about what they want to go to college for.[/quote]

College is supposed to be more than a trade or vocational school.[/quote]

I understand that. But in recent times, there are far more degree options that are the complete opposite that don’t teach anything remotely to being practical….

If state funds are being used indiscriminately to support wide variety of degrees, much of which doesn’t result in helping people in the future earn some sort of living, than what good does it do for the state to continue fund those programs, when the output of those degrees don’t produce people who can join the workforce to pay their taxes and re-contribute back into the system? It’s a lose lose situation, in which dollars are being spent to get students degrees but don’t make them further employable, and then being unemployable they either have to go elsewhere out of the state or then will need state aid to survive….

That said…. I generally agree that this is a much smaller problem…The much bigger problem is our state does a piss poor job managing its budget…