<p>This bill assumes that the purpose of all postsecondary education is to equip students for employment, a highly debatable assumption from the start. </p>
<p>Instead of creating a huge new university bureaucracy to take care of the due diligence that individual parents and students ought to be exercising on their own behalf, why don’t we just accept that if job training is the primary goal of postsecondary ed for students and their parents, the best bet is to go to a vocational school? Let’s stop the cargo-cultism surrounding Bachelor’s degrees. They don’t guarantee any job and never did.</p>
<p>There are always going to be people who are rich enough or idealistic enough to study the liberal arts. If you care a great deal about job placement after four years of college, don’t do this. No need for a new law.</p>