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It feels to me like part of the disconnect is that education and job training isn't necessarily the same thing. For many majors improving economic outcomes is not the core mission.

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Its an implicit promise, and we can already see the pendulum swinging back in the form of lower enrollment as more people catch on.

	▲	lurk2 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Its an implicit promise It's an inferred promise, not an implicit promise. Lots of schools do try to make it an explicit, qualified promise (e.g. "80% of grads work in their field!"), and even more are shifting towards becoming what are effectively vocational schools, but this was never the intended purpose of a liberal arts education.