Today’s Republican Party is certainly not the first to use such a tactic. Republicans are belittling knowledge that they find threatening to the status quo that gives the lives of social conservatives meaning. ![]() But this is not what this campaign mailer is invoking. With the increased cost of getting a college education and the crippling debt that comes with it, talks of a return on investment are a real conversation in higher education. ![]() When I was an undergraduate at Louisiana State University, the standard reference for made-up fields of study was “underwater basket weaving.” The discussions around “useless majors” reached a fever pitch during the Great Recession when people with certain non-STEM majors found it difficult to find employment in a rapidly imploding economy. People have always dismissed knowledge that they do not find valuable.
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