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Dr. Biden’s ascendence may be the best opportunity for community colleges to shirk subservience and shine as a distinct and equally important segment of American postsecondary education.
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There’s a reason these schools are failing: they’re failing students. So boundless nostalgia is not helpful.
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While modest reductions in friction for frontline employees may have been acceptable in less perilous times, 2020 calls for dramatic innovation. Like everything else this Christmas, that innovation is being delivered by Amazon.
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For this child of Boomers, the allure of self-realization ended with the advent of the $30,000 tuition bill.
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What needs to be built in higher education is better communication between producers and consumers of talent. And don’t count on Martian employers to do the work. The onus will fall squarely on Venus: the thousands of higher education institutions collecting $600B each year in tuition and fees.
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When learning, completion, and employment outcomes from college are sketchy and deteriorating, democratizing access to college is not the same as democratizing opportunity.
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Colleges and universities must shift from macro credentials with high social signal strength and low skill signal strength to micro credentials with low social signal strength and high skill signal strength. If they do their part, educated will no longer signify elite. It will mean skilled, and everyone has skills.
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Online training initiatives aren’t a panacea and may end up doing more harm than good if they act as a palliative, convincing large, fast-growing employers that their work here is done.
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Stating that higher education is not principally (or at all) a private good is ludicrous. R.B.G.’s opinion in the VMI case is all about ensuring that the “unique education benefits” of a VMI education are made available not to some amorphous collective, but to specific individuals who – regardless of gender – meet admissions standards.
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Technology isn’t changing higher education directly, but rather in a roundabout way: initially by changing the skillsets employers are seeking in new employees, then by digitizing hiring, and now via the work from home revolution.
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