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Yale asked the right question. Now the rest of higher education owes an answer
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (294+ words) Earlier this month, Yale published the findings of a year-long faculty investigation into why Americans have lost faith in higher education. Ten tenured professors. Hundreds of consultations. Unanimous conclusions. That took institutional courage, and the rest of us in higher…...
Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO'and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (980+ words) While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their number one priority, I'aki Ere'o, the chief executive of one of the world's largest healthcare companies, says if you're obsessing over balance, your problem isn't the hours. It's…...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells Gen Z that if they want to be successful, they have to "pay their dues" first
21+ hour, 32+ min ago (602+ words) Gen Z has a long checklist for their early careers: solid pay, work-life balance, and a trajectory that won't be wiped out by AI. But according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the dream of landing a great job straight out…...
America's 'silent army' of skilled tradespeople are retiring with no one to replace them'and the price tag could hit $1 trillion a year
23+ hour, 40+ min ago (1157+ words) The workers who keep America's buildings running are disappearing'and the U. S. isn't replacing them fast enough to keep the lights on, the servers cool, or the labs sterile. By 2030, an estimated 2. 1 million skilled trades jobs in the U. S. could go unfilled, with…...
Parents are so panicked about the job market they're paying career coaches $15, 000 years before their kids graduate from college
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (499+ words) Career coaches often tell college students to start looking for jobs months before turning the tassel. But in an increasingly brutal job market, some parents are planning years ahead of when their kid receives a diploma. While the average college…...
Home healthcare is propping up the labor market, but fewer hours, high burnout, and an immigration crackdown threaten to topple it
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (320+ words) Home healthcare workers make up less than 3% of the total jobs, but KPMG senior economist Matthew Nestler sees reason to pay attention'and reason to be concerned. "The current system right now is unsustainable," he told Fortune, "and [it's] buckling before…...
'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (700+ words) Men are nearly twice as likely as women to be living with their parents, and a new study says it's particularly harmful for non-college educated men, who are less likely to hold jobs compared to their college-educated counterparts. "There are…...
Teacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (753+ words) Fortune Teacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education America's colleges and universities are facing a crisis of legitimacy, and Yale University just issued one of the most candid institutional diagnoses yet…...
This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and Mc Kinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard'and it will only cost $10, 000 to attend
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (794+ words) As millions of young people weigh what comes after high school'whether that's a traditional college degree, a skilled trade program, or skipping higher education altogether'a new option will soon enter the mix. Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy,…...
Hampshire College closes, the latest in a string of small schools to fold under demographic, financial pressure
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (439+ words) Hampshire College, which includes award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, announced on Tuesday that it was closing later this year. The school's Board of Trustees voted to close after the fall semester over what its president and the…...