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I just scanned the article and will read later but I just wanted to add to your science comment. I learned from a keynote speaker that there are tons of college graduate jobs available in the US, but to science majors. They keep outsourcing because there are not enough Americans willing to go into the major.

I think there are a few factors at play in the whole college education discussion...cost, usefulness of the degree, employability post graduation and world trends.

Some people look at college as the opportunity to study whatever they want, because they'll never get the chance to do it again, and then can not find a job and are saddled with debt they can't repay. I am, quite frankly, not interested in supporting this for my son. I am not saying that I will declare his major for him, but I will not accept a major in "blah blah" and contribute to it financially. The purpose of him attending college or whatever higher education he chooses is to become employable on the global scale.

I think part of the responsibility lies with the colleges and universtities to design majors that reflect the demands of today's world, not of times past.

regarding outsourcing, I think it's important to look at what is being outsourced and determine if those are things we want to be in the business of doing or not. Do we want to be doing baseline coding? Probably not. Do we want to be developing the next coding language? Probably.

@looch: My parents were the same way with me and I plan to be the same with my kids. I wanted to major in English because I had dreams of being an author, but they felt like that probably wasn't the most wise major for me to take, so they suggested something more useful and encouraged me to continue writing in my spare time if that was my passion. I ended up doing Computer Science instead and am now a Software Engineer and am EXTREMELY grateful they wouldn't pay for me to major in English!