Gainful-Employment Major Steering
Tying institutional survival to graduate salaries forces schools to drop social-service programs.
"Punish low-wage majors and society's low-wage labor disappears too."
What is Gainful-Employment Major Steering? Tying institutional survival to graduate salaries forces schools to drop social-service programs. Single-metric institutional accountability rewires curricula.
Closure of teaching, social-work, and nursing programs under salary tests.
Single-metric institutional accountability rewires curricula.
Multi-dimensional outcome frameworks. Public-good carve-outs.
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Tying institutional survival to graduate salaries forces schools to drop social-service programs. Caught in the wild: Closure of teaching, social-work, and nursing programs under salary tests.
In the room: Single-metric institutional accountability rewires curricula.
Counter-move from the Atlas: Multi-dimensional outcome frameworks.
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