A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of meeting Commerce Secretary Pritzker when she visited Galvanize - a startup that believes in making education and growth accessible to anyone - especially underrepresented groups in the tech industry. As a recent graduate of Galvanize...
With all the focus on Black Lives Matter, gay marriage and transgender rights, perhaps women's issues are for the history books? Not so much. In the high-tech industry, often synonymous with progress, women are waging a battle for equity, inclusion, fairness and respect that echoes campaigns of the past.
Depending on whom you ask, degrees are either increasing in value or about to disappear into the dustbin of history. A new report by The Brookings Institution shows that the bachelor's degree premium remains as high as ever. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs says...
Colleges and universities are under fire. Skepticism, once limited to for-profit and vocational programs, now confronts the degree itself. Our most venerable institutions of higher education are being asked to move beyond what...
Credential innovation is a hot topic in higher education, from microcredentials to digital badges, from competency-based and clickable transcripts to stackable credentials. Case in point: to facilitate dialogue, Lumina Foundation launched...
Traditional universities seem to fail in preparing graduates for real jobs. According to numerous accounts, the Great Recession has left many recent college graduates struggling to find jobs that utilize their education. However, a look at the data on the employment outcomes for recent graduates over the past two decades suggests that such difficulties are not a new phenomenon: individuals just beginning their careers often need time...
In today's knowledge economy, people expect change over the course of their careers. More than 90 percent of millennials plan to stay in their jobs less than three years. They'll spiral between work and learning, sometimes blurring the lines between both. As they continue to build...
Three years ago University of New Haven Provost Dan May was weighing how to respond to a shifting job market for his students. His institution was already working with outside help to rethink the school's engineering education. Recognizing significant new demand for data scientists, and after being introduced to...
It has become fashionable in recent years to slam the college rankings racket. The U.S. News and 14 other rankings currently active in the U.S. have historically ranked higher education institutions based almost entirely on easy-to-measure inputs like student selectivity, faculty resources, spending per student and library...
Higher education is abuzz with talk of partnerships between private companies and universities. Yet ask a dozen faculty what they mean by "private sector" and you may feel a bit like the blind man and the elephant. Left to their own devices, education entrepreneurs and investors tend to revel in their own awesomeness...
