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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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Why don’t colleges and universities acquire and operate pro-social enterprises to provide students with relevant work experience?
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With online gradebooks informing and empowering parents, millions of parents now expect to know what’s happening at schools.
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