HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE? Utah Regents adopt plan to push most adults through college by 2020.

On Thursday, the Regents approved the 100-page Higher Ed Utah 2020 Plan, crafted at the request of Gov. Gary Herbert, after months of meetings and consultations. The plan seeks to get more students into college and earning degrees — currently less than 50 percent graduate — while promoting the role of higher education in economic innovation and workforce development.

How? By expanding need-based aid, embracing instructional technology and conducting classes online, shoring up the community college mission at the state’s regional universities, and subsidizing associate degree-seeking students, among dozens of other recommendations.

Then there is the unaddressed question of how to pay for it.

Hmm. Maybe they should read this, first.

UPDATE: Utah Tea Party organizer David Kirkham emails:

When I first went to Poland I could not believe how many people had advanced degrees. Phd’s abounded everywhere I went. But stop and think. Why was I there in Poland in the first place? I was there to make cars in a once mighty MiG fighter factory that was desperate for work. PZL-Mielec was a company that was “too big to fail.” I was there the day it crashed. Our arrival offered hope in a factory that was long forsaken by its government.

How did I get there? I convinced a wealthy friend of my father’s to loan me the money to start our company. If all his money had been taxed away, I could have never started our company and hired all the people we now employ today. Even in this economy we are still hiring.

All those degrees didn’t make Poland, or any other country in the Soviet Bloc, prosper. Only freedom will lift a nation–and its people–from poverty.

You wrote, “Hmmm, maybe they should read this first…”

How about, “Maybe they should remember what the Utah Tea Party thought about Senator Bennett.” We won’t stand for overspending in Utah any more than we will in the US Senate.”

Indeed.