I don't think we should allow the market to decide how to invest in education.

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"Urban Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, German Literature, African American Studies, Gender Studies and Women's Studies". I'm sensing a bias here.

Also that state funding should match workforce demands for the state - this part makes sense.

Not the economics department, though. That's definitely real science and is not an indoctrination program.

This guy is a moron. Somebody should audit the auditor.

First off? A lot of these degrees would be useful in the majority of the Econ sectors that are actually growing. But if you notice his junk list of degrees… it’s things like African American studies, gender studies… you know. Things that are “woke”.

So. Whose trying to indoctrinate whom?

In any case this moron is probably a symptom of why Mississippi has a lower than average economic growth; why the state is loosing educated workers; and why it ranks 37th in gdp and is on pace to collapse even further. If you want to stop the brain drain (people leaving…) might want to develop economic opportunities instead of bejng an asshole.

Too many college graduates are leaving Mississippi, and aligning degree programs with labor market demand might stem the tide, White said.

It doesn't even take a full brain cell to figure this one out. Tying budgets to the job market in mississippi isn't going to help if they aren't creating reasonable jobs there.

Mississippi state auditor? Yeah right! Nobody's ever audited THAT mess!

My engineering program contributed to me becoming a communist, does it need defunded too?

Seriously, being taught to explain to bosses the financial cost of employee suffering and that they won’t listen otherwise was a radicalizing experience.

Edit: read it and holy fuck German literature and anthropology are on the list wow.

Also, Mississippi, idk how to break it to you, you don’t need to fund education less, that’s the exact opposite of what literally every other state thinks you need to do. You’re not the liberal indoctrination in college state, you’re the “barely has an education system” state

Reality is woke. Defund reality.

-- some GOP chode, probably

This reads like an Onion article.

I mean, they want to fix "brain drain" in America's second-least educated state by restricting educational programs?

Fucking yikes, man.

Is this the same Shadrack Tucker White that studied practical, non-indoctrinary, apoliticial fields such as.... checks notes... "Economics" and "Politicial Science" from a public university?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_White

Who-hoo! I guessed right! Republican and Mindless Bean Counter. Exactly the type of people who should not advise about things University

Well, time to replace that auditor.

Republican Mississippi State Auditor says some lines to scare the base and make sure they keep voting against their own interests

Being educated indoctrinates people to not be conservative. It's not college's fault directly, they're at fault for educating students, and making them smarter to realize how dumb as shit conservatism is.

indoctrinate from the Latin docēre, "to teach"

(Other offspring of docēre include doctor, document, and, of course, doctrine)

I am ever amazed that these people believe they can gut education (or even just the parts of it they want to keep people ignorant about) and still live in a first-world country

Why is he Andy Bernard from the Office?

Is it even possible to fund a university major-by-major? Kind of a weird idea. The same class might be used for multiple majors, or minors, people switch majors, the administrative staff would presumably need to be fully paid for regardless of whether there's a gender studies major, etc.

If they were thinking of providing more government funding for scholarships for the majors they think they need more of as a state, it would be both easy to manage and morally absolutely fine. But spoilers, Mississippi is not considering providing additional money towards education.

"Person we hired to say things says the thing" more at 11.

Really irresponsible reporting, to be honest.

Problem: the state has a brain drain.

Purposed solution: make it harder for educated people to stay in the state.

Yeah I fully believe this guy studied economics. This is exactly the kinda ass-backwards logic they would come up with. It not only fails the smell test it does not match up with real world data at all. If you want more of something you dedicate more resources to that thing. The only reason why someone would suggest doing the exact opposite of what should be done is if there is a big incentive to lie. In this case for political advancement. Like I said, he is an economist. A paid shill.

By making programs not available it means that young people leave the state even earlier. It means that they don't have a career back home when they finish. Which means they have even less resources. A vicious cycle. They suck at subject X, so it gets less funding, which means they suck more, so they get even less funding, and it continues until the subject is gone and with it all the jobs. Instead of a diverse intellectual workforce you are doubling down on the few narrow subjects that show profit in a short period of time. Totally unprepared for any market shifts. And in the meantime you can't accommodate anyone who doesn't excel at the thing you doubled down on.

There might be some excuse for this if it were working but it isn't working. You could imagine San Jose pushing their schools to teach engineering or NYC schools pushing fashion but Mississippi is pushing for degrees in fields that have no hope in competing in.

Every single fucking thing is wrong about this plan and no one gives a shit. This guy is going to get some consulting fees bullshit for telling politicians what they want to hear because fuck truth.