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  1. List of Degrees Not Classed as ‘Professional’ by Trump Admin:

    * Nursing
    * Physician assistants
    * Physical therapists
    * Audiologists
    * Architects
    * Accountants
    * Educators
    * Social workers

  2. > It has also been reported that **engineering,** a business master’s, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered “professional” either.

    Spiffy.

  3. Tiny_Structure_7 on

    They are leaders of the idiot society, which resents education, and hates educated people.

  4. I am an NP and it’s amazing how Trump supporting Nurses and NPs are just downplaying this. Politics over Profession, every time.

  5. Trump administration is illegitimate. A man who was sued for operating a fake university has no credibility whatsoever to decide whether someone’s degree is professional or not.

  6. Nurses are teachers aren’t professionals? They are some of the most underpaid, hard working professionals out there.

  7. A-Helpful-Flamingo on

    Nothing about him or his admin is professional. They can shove this list up their collective a****

  8. Accountants aren’t classified as professional? Oh that’s the precursor to pushing AI to kill the profession

  9. Most-Artichoke6184 on

    Nursing degrees and teaching degrees. Two professions that are mandated reporters of child abuse.

    Interesting.

  10. This is how you keep a population uneducated and/or in crippling debt. This is the Republican MO, as awful as it is. But even more so when combined with forcing women to give birth versus having the option for proper reproductive care and medical costs as a whole. The system is being further rigged against ordinary citizens to the delight of the oligarchs.

  11. plasticbag_spaceman on

    If anyone else is like me and doesn’t really know what it means for a degree to be ‘professional’ or why it matters; they’re programs that typically focus less on research and more on hands-on practical training. But more importantly, student loans and how much you can borrow is different for these programs. Marking these degrees as no longer ‘professional’ likely makes it more difficult to secure funding, which will lead to fewer people getting these degrees.

  12. Dangerous-Week900 on

    Quote by Kevin Kinser, prof of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University:

    >As a wider impact, on the positive side, it will prevent people from taking on unreasonable amount of debt for the salaries they can expect to receive in employment.

    Can someone please explain to me how the inevitable result of people not going into these very necessary professions is a “positive”? How is this a better solution than addressing the exorbitant cost of education or, oh idk, doing something about our fucking criminally stagnant wages???

  13. You’re telling me, I’m going to go and get a DOCTORATE in physical therapy, and will still not be considered to have a professional degree. Is the only option to emigrate?

  14. Terrible_Toaster on

    But don’t worry everyone… THEOLOGY is still a.professional degree. I cant wait until I get to drive over a bridge built by Jesus. He was a carpenter after all. Fuck those engineers though amirite?

  15. Smooth_Buffalo_2578 on

    Well since we are obviously attacking women dominated job fields I suppose its safe to assume we have Lil dick energy yet again 🙄

    But since we are going to label things as NOT professional I have some very easy ones

    1) president
    2) secretary of defense
    3) attorney general of the united states.
    4) congress
    5) senate

    Since all of these positions allow you to still be at the job even after having a criminal record they should not be labeled as professional NOR should they be paid anything more than minimum wage. Plus as we can see with objective truth….they are full of fucking idiots.

  16. Has anyone clearly described what this really means in terms of impacts and second order effects?

    I’ve heard that it will affect student loan borrowing. What else?

    Why are they doing this besides the fact that they’re assholes?

  17. ConfusedGamer63 on

    The part that gets me is that Theology students get a pass.

    But Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners.. who now do about a third of all Primary and Urgent Care.. are no longer allowed to take out student loans.

    We already have an primary care crisis in America. This is only going to make it worse.

  18. Wtf architects? Does that mducker know what it takes to be licensed ? We are in charge of code , life safety, construction coordination .

    School is 5 years, then 3 years working under licensed architects. Then 1 year yo finish exams ans then you can be called an architect.

    Dude must be jealous of someone

  19. rebelintellectual on

    As an engineer this is bullshit . One of the hardest degrees and he chooses to make clergy a profession. Give me a break this administration is higher than inflation rate. 

  20. Kendal_with_1_L on

    The CPA is one of the hardest exams to pass yet accountants aren’t professionals…. K.

  21. Sea_Refrigerator3709 on

    There was quite a few layers to this, one of which I figure is their way of officially curating a list of professions that are allowed to represent themselves as ‘experts’ when it comes to advice and guidance.

    “Compelling arguments, but I’ll defer to the professional theologian over the nurses on this one”

  22. What the balls.

    I’m a former classroom teacher and uni professor. I currently work as the CFO of a small business. I don’t have an accounting degree, but I rely on certified financial accountants. And part time I’m studying construction engineering so that when I “retire” from my current job, I can work closely with architects and civil engineers to design homes and buildings, and then build them.

    If your profession requires you *by statute* to have a postsecondary degree *and* licensure, and that the gateways to licensure are statutorily established and evaluated by a professional standards commission, *you’re a fucking professional*.

    This includes teachers, accountants, architects, and engineers — all professions which this administration says aren’t “professional”.

    Fk this guy.

  23. The_real_bandito on

    Accountants 😂

    You know very well why he probably doesn’t classify them as professionals.

  24. AccurateAssistance28 on

    This is part of Project Esther, which is a subsection of Project 2025. It focuses on forcing women back into “traditional family roles.” I’m a professional architect, and it’s really insulting to say that what I’ve worked so hard for is not professional anymore. Piggy hasn’t worked this hard at anything in his fucking sad little life (maybe besides to destroy America from within, but he’s just the puppet).

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