ANN ARBOR ? Michigan is producing more college grads than it has jobs that require such degrees. Worse, many Michigan grads are walking into the job market with degrees in fields that are way oversupplied (law, PR), while engineering and computer openings go begging.
If Amy Dobson is a rock and Gentex is a hard place, Gov. Rick Snyder is stuck between them.
Dobson, an effervescent 23-year-old from Okemos, finished a five-year degree program in education from Michigan State University last spring. Despite holding a bachelor?s degree from a top-ranked education school, Dobson couldn?t find a job in her home state. Then she received three job offers in quick succession ? all in Utah.
?I would have loved to stay (near her home and family),? said Dobson, who teaches fourth grade in a suburban classroom near Salt Lake City. ?I have (teacher) friends who moved to Chicago and one to South Carolina. One is working in Mexico.?
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