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| Paul Gessing |
(Albuquerque) Florida Gov. Rick Scott recently made headlines around the country when he argued that institutes of higher education in his state of Florida should prioritize funding for the study of science and technology in the his state’s institutes of higher education. Said Scott, “If I’m going to take money from a citizen to put into education then I’m going to take money to create jobs…so I want the money to go to a degree where people can get jobs in this state. Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don’t think so.” One may agree or disagree with Scott’s statement, but prioritization of limited resources is essential. In order to better understand how those resources should be allocated in higher education in New Mexico, the Rio Grande Foundation undertook an effort to survey members of the boards of regents of the state’s six public senior universities on their views of their schools’ mission statements. Unfortunately, poor returns – only 26.7% of the regents responded – seem to indicate that many of the people responsible for leading these institutes do not take their mission statements seriously. Read full column here: News New Mexico
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Politicians are soooo ignorant.
First, one cannot just decide which degrees should be funded and which should not.
Every person is endowed with gifts from the Creator. Those gifts are what provide the person with his/her abilities. It is to those gifts that people gravitate when earning an education. Not everyone is capable of becoming a chemist or a physicist or a biologist. You can emphazise specific degrees all you want but you cannot just make anyone capable of 1) obtaining that degree or 2) actually being proficient in that area of study.
Not everyone can be anything. One must have the capacity to grasp the knowledge and the capability to utilize that knowledge. It is not as clear cut as politicians want it to be. But then many of them have soft degrees like political "science".
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