Colleges are increasingly evaluated on how well they prepare students for jobs and careers after graduation, and in response, most are trying to tailor their programs and offerings to meet the needs of employers. How are they doing?
In this week's episode of The Key ‘Inside Higher Education’'s News & Analysis podcast uses two recent studies (one from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce and one from the Upjohn Institute) as a starting point for a larger look at how colleges and universities are responding to the growing pressure to prepare learners. Have a conversation. work.
This week's guest is Michelle Van Noy, research associate professor and director of the Center for Education and Employment Studies on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick.
Her wide-ranging conversation covers the complexities that make it difficult to get easy answers in this area, the different expectations of different types of institutions, the roles held by institutions as well as employers and learners themselves, and the emergence of skills-based recruitment.
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