Comment by delichon
6 hours ago
IMHO Outcome Based Funding is a better model for public education.
https://freopp.org/whitepapers/aligning-state-higher-educati...
As you might imagine this is favorable to STEM and unfavorable to the humanities. But I think that expensive private institutions are a better venue to educate students who are more insulated from economic disadvantage in disciplines with a low return on investment. It's a good thing to bias the opportunities of disadvantaged students in favor of greater earning capacity. In higher education, the lower the expected pay for a skill set, the more it should be treated as a luxury good.
"Only rich kids should get to choose what they study in school, poor kids are too dumb to make their own choices"
The argument is rather that humanities degrees are a luxury item. Neither kids just starting out their adult lives nor society should be burdened propping up departments whose value doesn't match their price tag.