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When faculty make up short-term credentials – i.e., certificates – they’re not stackable: they’re Sleestak-able. What’s the point of obtaining a made-up certificate employers don’t understand?
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Without a course correction, Lambda School is on its way to having a for-profit college problem (sans squandering of taxpayer dollars).
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There’s a reason community college enrollment is down by double digits this year. It’s not unaffordable tuition. It’s because too few community colleges have acknowledged that the economy has changed. While digital transformation has transformed the world of work, most community colleges don’t look much different than they did a generation ago.
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The irony is that in undertaking to combat systemic racism, colleges and universities have focused on external systems like policing, where they are not the prime racist mover. All the while, higher education’s own systems and traditions are the primary barrier keeping minority students from the most valuable programs.
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In the world’s most advanced economy, much of the workforce infrastructure we need is already built; we don’t have to build from scratch. In fact, building from scratch is not only a waste of resources and time we don’t have, but probably won’t work.
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The only way to ensure the AI war never turns hot is to sprint far ahead of China. The key to this is talent, and colleges and universities have a key role to play.
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In the past the answer to technology-assisted cheating has been new technologies. But we need more than that now. The most effective technology solutions also require business changes.
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For many well-heeled families who benefited from a broken admissions system, this year’s decisions may feel a bit more random, like putting it all on red.
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If progressives fail to make peace with the private sector, they’ll be damning Gen Z to a rinse-and-repeat doom loop of underemployment and student debt forgiveness.
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Digital credential apps will connect job seekers to employer hiring systems and transition the economy from pedigree- and degree-based hiring to skills-based hiring.
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