Inside Higher Ed reports on an impressively bad idea from the upper midwest:
“If we can’t lure them here, let’s tether them here,” said Mark O’Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association, a lobbying organization, and a member of the Commission on Enhancing the Mission of the Wisconsin Colleges, a group created to advise the network of 13 two-year colleges in the state.The commission, appointed by the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges in August, submitted a report late last month calling for an investment in new scholarships pegged to residency requirements post-graduation. “If we can’t lure people to our state, smart, young people, let’s give them education and then require them to stay here a certain number of years,” O’Connell said.
I have a 9am lab today (this article, like most of my daytime posts, comes to you via the “schedule posts” feature), so I was lamenting the fact that I wouldn’t have time to rant about what a silly idea this is. Happily, though, the Dean Dad did it for me.