I personally don't care what a person studies in college... they make the choice to attend and pay the tuition... they can study whatever they want IMO. So long as the Government isn't "bailing them out", like they're trying to do now.
I think the Governments role in education, is in the primary school system. If we were teaching 5-18 year old's the above mentioned stuff - instead of all the "gender neutral sociology" in middle school... we would be a lot better off. I'm sure we see it similar, I just like making the distinction on what segment of education I was mainly referring.