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With all the AI attention on teaching and tutoring, with major budget challenges ahead, and with most of the spending outside the classroom, colleges need to embrace AI in order to shrink.
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The demise of University of the Arts demonstrates that current financial guardrails aren’t working. Colleges and universities at risk of not making payments or payroll should not be able to make up for that fundamental weakness with another financial metric.
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Outside of brand-name schools, failure to bake relevant work experience into postsecondary programs is a recipe for anachronism. It’s time for colleges to get serious about internships.
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Seafood towers are not only a good way to run up a restaurant bill, they’re also a good way to understand majors. If it doesn’t have at least two tiers, restaurants shouldn’t be selling it as a seafood tower. Likewise, if majors don’t have two tiers, colleges shouldn’t be offering them.
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Higher education’s go-along, get-along attitude to the Googlification of the classroom is yet another example of colleges doing the easy thing rather than the right thing for students.
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The FAFSA failure is a talent problem that sheds light on the higher education system FAFSA props up. Degrees shouldn’t be the only pathway to managing contractors for a federal agency or moving a 40- year-old COBOL form to the Cloud, and definitely not the only subsidized path.
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Small colleges are abusing varsity athletics to juice enrollment
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In an era with an unprecedented amount of free educational content, the impact of Inclusive Access has been to create a monopoly for college bookstores.
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Apprenticeships provide greater safety and equal opportunity than any other postsecondary pathway. And that’s before any new rules. Today’s registered apprenticeship is a quality apprenticeship.
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Why has applying to college become as disorientingly complicated as Scientology?
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