<p>How is a kid not having skin in the game w/r/t the need for employment the fault of the college?</p>
<p>I graduated in the late 70’s into a horrible recession. Nobody thought their “dream job” was waiting for them. Within a couple of years virtually everyone I knew had found a path. Art History majors quickly figured out that they needed to start out in the education department of a museum giving tours to third graders, or in the fundraising department learning to write grants, or in the gift shop learning to deal with vendors of licensed products before anyone wanted to hear about their senior thesis comparing El Greco to Picasso.</p>
<p>My friend the urban planner had to start out in customer service at a transportation authority handling customer complaints before anyone wanted to hear her ideas about building affordable housing near transportation hubs rather than at the edge of a city where people without cars couldn’t get to jobs. And my college roommate- the comparative lit major, Phi Beta Kappa, ended up writing press releases at a PR firm.</p>
<p>This is not news. What is news is expecting the colleges to shoulder the burden that used to be shouldered by mom and dad, i.e. “get a job and stop complaining that it’s someone else’s problem”.</p>