evaluate courses for their economic worth to the state. By whether they've met the needs of the state's employers. By the wages graduates earn. "I have always believed that the only way to ensure increasing levels of performance is by measuring outcomes by using objective, data-driven criteria," Scott warned the presidents of Florida universities last week. He told reporters he thought anthropology wasn't worth a student's time (or the state's money.) Anthropologists, at least, have the prospect of employment outside academia. God knows what he thinks of poets.
"I'm teaching an honors seminar on the letters of poets this semester, so I can imagine what the governor would make of my class," [Barbara] Hamby, a notable poet in her own right, said Wednesday via e-mail. "We started in ancient Greece and we are finishing up with the Beats."
from Miami Herald: Here's an economic engine, Gov. Scott: Poetry
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