Maine Governor Candidates debate Higher Ed

The Maine Compact for Higher Education held their annual symposium yesterday, and the news was grim in several ways. I'll get to the gubernatorial grimness in a moment.

Anthony Carnevale of the Center on Education and the Workforce led off with a study projecting much greater growth in jobs and sectors that require more effective (and quite different) workers than Maine is currently producing. While I can quibble that the focus on post-secondary education as the gateway to earning power rests on some tenets that I think are worth challenging - the data, both current and projected, make clear that Mainers are going to struggle to find jobs that support families unless a dramatically different set of trends prevail.

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