The Chronicle of Higher Education has released a report showing that about a fourth of our state legislators lack a 4-year college education. I think this is good and, given the quality of the average state legislator, I wonder whether we'd have more productive and more representative (72% of the voters have also not completed a 4-year college education) state legislators if fewer of their members went to college.
I've never read the Chronicle but always thought that it was not part of the lobbyist culture. Now I'm not so sure given the reason for the study: "after hearing complaints from college administrators that they were losing state aid and scholarship money because legislators had never been to college themselves and did not understand higher education".
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