How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree

Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree by gojomo on Friday August 17, 2012 @01:09AM (#4395153)

So perhaps a neo-credentialist-Keynesian solution would be to have the government print up college degrees for mailing to the 6 million un-degreed unemployed?

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Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree by Evbn on Friday August 17, 2012 @01:30AM (#4395202)

You joke, but that works if labor is under supplied because employees are afraid to hire non grads. (Real world example: blacks were banned from military combat roles, due to racism, until we an out of whits for cannon fodder.)

But it doesn't work if demand is too low for supply already.

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Re:How the Great Recession Proved the Value of a College Degree by gojomo on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:06AM (#4395291)

If merely giving someone a degree-in-name, rather than actually educating them, would result in happy employers and higher overall employment, then there's something deeply wrong with (a) college educations; (b) employer evaluation standards; or (c) both.

(I don't doubt that there are deep problems in both those areas, and my jest was intended to suggest their character.)

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