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Colleges don’t have a recruitment problem, they have a product problem. So why would anyone want to start a new college?
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If we care about building America for the next 250 years, stop investing billions in training programs for non-existent entry-level jobs in the trades and start permitting new credentials.
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Although this summer is shaping up to be the worst teen job market in 80 years, summer jobs for teens matter more than ever.
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If universities are reaping the benefits of scaling lucrative online healthcare programs, they have the resources to arrange clinical placements for all students.
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What happens when investment banks are the only companies recruiting a nervous generation two years ahead of time? A gravitational distortion of student life.
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You don’t have to be Nostradamus to predict that allowing prediction markets to run rampant on college campuses will lead to bad outcomes for students.
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By splitting the word workforce into two (“work force”), the New York Times separates symptoms from system. Which explains the paper of record’s spotty coverage of talent shortages, underemployment, and broken career pathways rather than the system causing them.
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Talent marketplaces are not only the solution for what ails workforce development, but also the tool we need to navigate impending AI disruption of the labor market.
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Internships are jobs and we need millions more of them. And like all jobs, they’re only created when companies decide the benefits of hiring outweigh the costs.
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Tech billionaires think they can do anything. Because they went to school – or at least dropped out – they think they can design a better one.
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