Coe delivered a powerful speech to the Congress ahead of the vote in which he said: "There is no task in my life for which I've ever been better prepared, no job I've ever wanted to do more and with greater commitment".
Education has become pricier, while graduates are less prepared for jobs in either the white collar or blue collar workforce.
Graduates who completed a narrow, highly specialised education programme perceive themselves as well prepared for jobs within the programme's occupational domain and perceive their knowledge and skills to be of little use in jobs outside that domain.
Why do universities emphasize research while undergraduate students -- the bulk of higher education pupils -- want to get prepared for jobs?
If we want our students to be prepared for jobs in all sectors, they need computers and access to the internet.
Women are now more likely to have graduated from college than men, for example, and they are more prepared for a job market in which manufacturing jobs have been eclipsed by those in the service sector.
Residents of Detroit's outer neighbourhoods are not only poorer and worse-prepared for jobs than those in the core, where the per capita income of the 36,000 residents is more than $5,000 higher ($20,200) than the city as a whole, but young people are about four times less likely to be college educated.
"I think that every graduate student should take this course … I feel more prepared about the job application process, networking, and finding the job …." —Tina Sing, Ph.D. candidate.
However, this year's seniors may actually be better prepared for the job hunt because they've already watched their friends battle the job market, Mr. White said.
As a result, what was already a poorly trained and equally poorly paid force has become even less prepared for the job.
