re: Should Arts and Humanities Majors be denied Grants and Loans?

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the Successful English Major would have been unemployed as a Marketing Major?

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Why are you trying to tell people what to study? Are you telling me that Marketing is such a complicated concept that an English major can't pick it up?

Because you'd be dead wrong. Diversity of thought is a good thing. Heck, I'd rather have an industrious biology or English major who might have a divergent opinion and took to the Marketing realm, rather than a Marketing major.

The problem is three-fold:
1) Politicians want degrees tied to outcomes for proof for data/value/etc.
2) The general public thinks degree=jobs
3) Employers are too lazy to actually vet potential employees correctly and too short sighted to invest in them, so having a "Marketing Degree," as proof is just an easy out.

It's a mess, but employing measure to limit this is not the answer. Correcting beliefs is.