I don't care about general education. Some students do tell me this, and I understand this point of view. They are as essential as technical skills for a technical college graduate in today's job market. In order to serve students better, we need to move this conversation out of the political realm and into the substantive realm. Frankly, there is some resistance to change within segments of the vocational-technical education political establishment.
Some people equate changing technical education with destroying it.
That attitude needs to change if we are to prepare our students for a changing world.