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ST. George - Beehive State higher instruction functionaries sometimes jest they vie with pickup truck trucks. Too many college-age adults, they say, waive school for fast money swinging cocks in Utah's still healthy economy. As a result, the Beehive State have low rates of higher instruction completion, and that portends sick for Utah's economical future. Brandon Grover is among immature Utahns who chose a pickup truck over a college education. The Cedar City indigen bailed out of Snow College his fresher twelvemonth to work the electric drill rigs in Uinta Basin's natural gas fields. "My coevals desires the good things right away. We're not willing to wait," the beefy 21-year-old recently told college leadership gathered in St. George. Grover knew, however, that he couldn't work on the rigs for the remainder of his life, so he's endorse in school studying accounting on a football game scholarship at Confederacy State College. His narrative exemplifies the national job of sagging pupil success, which is particularly acute in Utah. In the past 20 years, the United States have slipped from first to 10th topographic point in the per centum of grownups holding college degrees. "We're going in the incorrect direction," interim Higher Education Commissioner Dave Buhler said. "Unless we do tough picks to dramatically better public and higher instruction outcomes, our pupils will vie for occupations against better-educated people all over the Advertisement