by Amy E. Slaton | Jun 23, 2011 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Policy
The idea that 4-year college degrees and liberal arts curricula waste students’ time and money, which I’ve lately been writing about in this blog, is definitely spreading among those who seem most easily to get media exposure. The recent words of Bill...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jun 14, 2011 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Policy
I’ve been watching the spread of a troubling recessionary idea: That sending fewer Americans to college will solve our economic problems. In STEM fields, this is part of the whole “skills gap” story so popular in talk about education-for-jobs...
by Amy E. Slaton | Jun 11, 2011 | Higher Ed, Job Creation, Media
“I want to have as few people touching our products as possible.” So spoke Dan Mishek, the managing director of an industrial plastic products manufacturer in Minnesota, quoted in Catherine Rampell’s NYTimes article yesterday, “Companies Spend...
