The criteria employers use to evaluate recent college graduates for jobs in the real world of today have changed dramatically. The majority of college classrooms have not kept pace with or do not sufficiently prepare students for the evolving demands of the workplace environment—and employers are noticing. The design elements of the college classroom and […]

Sara Goldrick-Rab’s mission is to make higher education the accessible and affordable place that families want and need it to be. In Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream (2016, University of Chicago Press), Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, describes what […]

Teenagers spend more of their time watching YouTube video clips than television, according to research from DEFY Media. Yet when they arrive at college, they’re suddenly expected to sit in classrooms, concentrating on 50-minute lectures. The disconnect between students’ digital lives and their classroom experience is narrowing as professors are increasingly embedding video in their […]

Higher ed institutions in the U.S. lead the world when it comes to producing graduates who go on to create unicorns—private start-up companies worth in excess of $1 billion, such as Uber, Facebook or SpaceX. Stanford University tops the list with 51 unicorn founders as alumni, including three from LinkedIn (Allen Blue, Eric Ly and […]