The legacy media is reporting on Governor Murphy’s efforts to resolve the Rutgers strike, but they covered his April 10th executive order signing ceremony with less volume.
Executive Order No. 327, as described by Murphy’s press office, “directs [the New Jersey Civil Service Commission] to identify the job classifications that require college degrees and determine which are appropriate to revise in the State’s classification plan, prioritizing the practical skills and experiences needed to effectively serve the public over strict educational requirements.” Said another way, Trenton is going to put less emphasis on a college degree in its hiring decisions moving forward.
We may soon see a spike in state workers boasting fat pensions, $120,000 a year salaries, top-tier health care packages, great schedules and nothing beyond a high school degree.
“Every American should have the ability to attain a good job with growth opportunities and secure their place in the middle class, regardless of whether or not they have a college degree,” said Governor Murphy. “Employment qualifications for good-paying jobs in our state workforce should not exclude individuals with qualifying experience, unique skillsets, and diverse backgrounds. Today, we open the door to that opportunity for applicants across our state, and urge other states, as well as private sector employers, to remove barriers to opportunity.”
The Garden State isn’t alone. In fact, a recent survey discovered 53% of U.S. companies eliminating four-year degree requirements for hiring.
A good thing? Probably, but that’s besides the point…
At the same time that Trenton and corporate America are moving away from prioritizing a four-year college education, Democrats including Murphy continue to invest BILLIONS of tax dollars annually in higher education institutions like Rutgers; direct aid and tuition subsidies inflate the cost of an education and drive the student debt crisis. Murphy has taken it a step further in New Jersey by subsidizing not just citizen children often seeking economically-useless degrees in women’s studies and other liberal arts curiosities but the tuition bills of ILLEGAL alien kids, too.
These short-sighted policies (which prop up the far-Left academic establishment but do little for our kids other than condition them to live debt-driven lives) are accelerating the decline of a college degree’s value.
Does anyone under that golden dome appreciate the irony?
I guess the better question is whether they care.
Those striking academics demanding higher wages and a variety of social justice-themed goodies are protesting on the deck of the Titanic; their ship is about to slam directly into a iceberg of the Left’s own making.
