The tech sector is shedding tens of thousands of jobs. The degree itself doesn't credential you to do anything, it merely stamped you as somebody who's gone to college. It's just true of what it is to be a worker today in the economy. This is all we're basically asking people to become like entrepreneurs of their own life. And so obviously I believe in the liberal arts? I'm teaching students on these issues right now.
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.
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