Kentucky’s Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton (R) has some advice for millennials: go to college to study a field that will land you a job.
“I would not be studying history,” the Lt. Governor said in an interview with Eastern Progress on Thursday. “(College is) not a right, it’s a privilege. Those of us who go to work must give part of their earnings to put you through college, and I disagree with that.”
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Hampton has been receiving criticism since the Governor imposed a 4.5 percent budget cut to higher education. She has insisted that students who are prepared to work hard can still find a way to make college affordable and college should be moving funds away from programs that won’t help students get a job after graduation.
She insisted that universities must innovate and make difficult decisions to change the way they spend money, focusing more on programs that are likely to lead a student to full time job after graduation.
Comparing colleges to private business, she said that they will innovate to attract new customers and competition between universities will also drive down costs overall.
“Let’s inject some competition in there,” Hampton said.
