What is college for? Gov. Shapiro raises the question. Higher ed leaders are listening. - Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer

What is college actually for? While he may not have stated it explicitly, this was the essence of Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro's very first executive order, which opened up some 92% of job listings in state government — about 65,000 in all — to applicants who don’t have a four-year college degree. In branding degree requirements for many jobs as “arbitrary” and declaring “there are many different pathways to success,” the Keystone State’s new chief executive was tugging at the shaky Jenga block that has undergirded the appalling rise of a $1.75 trillion student debt bomb in the U.S. and led, arguably, to a college/non-college divide driving our nation’s bitter politics. The notion is this: You can’t make it in 21st-century America without that most expensive piece of sheepskin: the college diploma.

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