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Why don’t we have a national student unit record system? Does a shadowy cabal of government officials want to know how many credits you have in order to transfer them to pedophiles? Conspiracy thinking is killing college and our country.
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Employers need to be confident candidates are much more likely to create value quickly than cause problems or churn within a short period of time. But traditional postsecondary education is hardly the most powerful lever to accomplish this.
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Covid will reveal the man behind the curtain; the magic of the tuition and fees bundle will be gone, and price elasticity among students and parents will increase dramatically. Magic is nice, if you can afford it. And in a Covid economy, fewer families will be able to.
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Colleges and universities would be wise to end the flim-flam now and keep students away from campus this fall.
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During the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, protests are unlikely to help colleges deliver the improved economic outcomes that students desperately need.
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Union-paid pathways to good first jobs in law enforcement, education, healthcare, and other highly unionized sectors would improve talent, diversity, and opportunity.
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When I wrote A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College, I thought elite universities would remain largely unchanged. But no one anticipated a faster + cheaper + Covid world.
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America remains #1 at finding magic bullets. But even if we find one for Covid-19, there won’t be a magic bullet for putting America back to work.
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Colleges and universities market themselves as buffets for the mind. But if there’s one thing that will never be the same after quarantine, it’s buffets.
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For all employers, there are must-haves and nice-to-haves. In the last month, most decision-makers have gone from having a list of nice-to-haves somewhere in their office to losing that list in a fast-growing pile of urgent, must-haves. Innovative hiring and upskilling initiatives seem like a relic of better days.
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