Indiana college degrees classified as “low earning” would be eliminated under a bill that passed the Indiana Senate on Jan. 29 with near-unanimous support.
All Democrats voted for Senate Bill 199, a Frankenstein of technical education-related changes that once contained language restricting social media access for minors before it was abruptly stripped by bill author Sen. Jeff Raatz on the Senate floor.
But a single line, buried in the middle of the bill and absent from the bill digest, would effectively eliminate public college degrees where graduates earn less than their counterparts with only a high school diploma. It could be yet another blow for the state’s higher education institutions less than a year after last-minute language from last legislative session led colleges to cut more than a fifth of the state’s degrees because of low enrollment.
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