U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers

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Post by nafnlj » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:00 PM UTC

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
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Post by version_five » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:06 PM UTC

Sort of related, ontario is dropping university requirements for police: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-eliminating-edu...

I wonder if it's coincidence or the start of a trend back to sanity about job qualifications. Ironically, by becoming almost ubiquitous, university education also becomes irrelevant.

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Post by babelthuap » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:09 PM UTC

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Post by rcme » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

babelthuap wrote: post #3

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Apparently you can just lie about it if people ask.

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Post by flavius29663 » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:45 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #2

Sort of related, ontario is dropping university requirements for police: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-eliminating-edu... I wonder if it's coincidence or the start of a trend back to sanity about job qualifications. Ironically, by becoming almost ubiquitous, university education also becomes irrelevant.

AKA: If everyone is super, then nobody is

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Post by jseliger » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:46 PM UTC

Good: https://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boos....

College requirements have too many false positives and false negatives.

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Post by jewayne » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:48 PM UTC

babelthuap wrote: post #3

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> Don't even need to show a birth certificate

Fun fact: Trump rode birtherism all the way to the presidency, then never showed his own birth certificate.

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Post by UhUhUhUh » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:49 PM UTC

I like money tho....

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Post by bell-cot » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

I've never heard any justification for having "college education" as a job requirement. Or at least no justification that didn't amount to "keep out people who aren't like us", or "pretend to be competent", or "posture as exclusive".

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Post by chaps » Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 3:54 PM UTC

It's such a silly requirement. One of the few local government jobs I tried to applied for denied me immediately because I don't have a degree. The requirement is built on top of a decades-long lawsuit about political patronage, where agencies are required to write very explicit hiring rules. I imagine modifications to the hiring rules for college degree requirements would require a lot of legal review before they make any changes. It's possible to get exceptions, but they're narrow and wouldn't have applied for me.