{"id":991036,"date":"2023-02-13T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273866"},"modified":"2023-02-13T06:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:54:33","slug":"credentialism-and-the-fate-of-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/13\/credentialism-and-the-fate-of-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Credentialism and the Fate of Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public education in the United States has always had very specific objectives: (1) It aims to produce qualified workers for a multilayered labor market. Two hundred years ago, at the college level, this meant doctors, lawyers and Protestant pastors. For the last one hundred years or so, higher education has served a broader middle class, white collar market. The shortage of \u201cvoc-tech\u201d options is a function of modern cultural bias\u2014such career paths have long been seen as lower class and traditionally came through an apprenticeship. These were careers that got one\u2019s hands dirty. Even today such work does not lead to high starting salaries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/credentialism-and-the-fate-of-academia\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/credentialism-and-the-fate-of-academia\/\">Credentialism and the Fate of Academia<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/credentialism-and-the-fate-of-academia\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public education in the United States has always had very specific objectives: (1) It aims to produce qualified workers for a multilayered labor market. Two hundred years ago, at the college level, this meant doctors, lawyers and Protestant pastors. Fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991037,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991036\/revisions\/991037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}