Louisiana has a "surplus" of college graduates get a traditional four-year degrees should steer more people into the community and technical college programs to meet the future demand for jobs, a top official hand-d ' implementation of state said Monday.
Curt Eysink.gifCurt Eysink Eysink, Executive Director of the Commission of the workforce in Louisiana, incorporates the projections of occupations that show the state produce over 10,312 graduates from four years ago of job openings between 2008 and 2016, while at the same time there are 3892 more jobs available requiring associate or technical degrees than people to fill them. "We produce a workforce that we can not use in Louisiana," said the Eysink Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission, which seeks ways to reform the state system of higher education.
The panel was created by the Legislature this year and should generate a plan for the Board of Governors February 12 with an overview of proposed changes to state colleges and universities. Gov. Bobby Jindal has asked the group to identify $ 146 million in possible budget reductions that the state is preparing for years of expected budget deficits resulting from stagnant revenue and rising costs.Eysink cited forecasting models that show the top growth occupations state of being low-skilled service jobs in the industry as ticket-takers, cashiers and representatives of customer service and more jobs skilled as nurses, teachers and trades such as welders and carpenteSeveral committee members were not satisfied with the prospect that Louisiana already trails the rest of the South and the nation as a whole in almost all education indicators, including percentage of population with a college diploma. Only 21 percent of Louisiana residents aged 25 to 64 have a four-year degree or more, compared to 26.4 percent for South and 29 percent of the nation as a whole. To say that a state has too many graduates of four-year "is to tell a rich guy, he has too much money," said Artis Terrell of Shreveport, a key element in the Williams Capital Group . 'Can you ever have too many four years leading up to the year? "
Others said the state needs to get better at providing jobs that would keep the graduates to pursue jobs in other states.
"Louisiana is losing much of its best educated people because it does not include jobs that are most attractive to them," said David Longanecker member of the Committee, Chairman of the Interstate Commission of the West Higher Education in Boulder, ColoThe Commission on Monday elected Senator Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, as its chairman and Belle Wheelan as vice president. Nevers is president of the National Committee of Education of the Senate, and Whelan is president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in Decatur, Georgia
Curt Eysink.gifCurt Eysink Eysink, Executive Director of the Commission of the workforce in Louisiana, incorporates the projections of occupations that show the state produce over 10,312 graduates from four years ago of job openings between 2008 and 2016, while at the same time there are 3892 more jobs available requiring associate or technical degrees than people to fill them. "We produce a workforce that we can not use in Louisiana," said the Eysink Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission, which seeks ways to reform the state system of higher education.
The panel was created by the Legislature this year and should generate a plan for the Board of Governors February 12 with an overview of proposed changes to state colleges and universities. Gov. Bobby Jindal has asked the group to identify $ 146 million in possible budget reductions that the state is preparing for years of expected budget deficits resulting from stagnant revenue and rising costs.Eysink cited forecasting models that show the top growth occupations state of being low-skilled service jobs in the industry as ticket-takers, cashiers and representatives of customer service and more jobs skilled as nurses, teachers and trades such as welders and carpenteSeveral committee members were not satisfied with the prospect that Louisiana already trails the rest of the South and the nation as a whole in almost all education indicators, including percentage of population with a college diploma. Only 21 percent of Louisiana residents aged 25 to 64 have a four-year degree or more, compared to 26.4 percent for South and 29 percent of the nation as a whole. To say that a state has too many graduates of four-year "is to tell a rich guy, he has too much money," said Artis Terrell of Shreveport, a key element in the Williams Capital Group . 'Can you ever have too many four years leading up to the year? "
Others said the state needs to get better at providing jobs that would keep the graduates to pursue jobs in other states.
"Louisiana is losing much of its best educated people because it does not include jobs that are most attractive to them," said David Longanecker member of the Committee, Chairman of the Interstate Commission of the West Higher Education in Boulder, ColoThe Commission on Monday elected Senator Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, as its chairman and Belle Wheelan as vice president. Nevers is president of the National Committee of Education of the Senate, and Whelan is president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in Decatur, Georgia
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