Kathleen deLaski discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Kathleen deLaski is an education and workforce designer, as well as a futurist. She founded the Education Design Lab in 2013 to help colleges begin the journey to reimagine higher education toward the future of work. Her non-profit has helped 1200 colleges, orgs and economic regions design shorter, more affordable pathways for learners to achieve their economic goals. She spends time as a senior advisor to the Project on Workforce at Harvard University and teaches human-centered design and higher ed reform as an adjunct professor in the Honors College at George Mason University. In a previous career, Kathleen spent twenty years as a TV and then a digital journalist, including time as ABC News White House correspondent. Followed by a political appointment as the first female Pentagon spokesperson. Her new book is Who Needs College Any More?, available at https://www.whoneedscollegeanymore.org/.
- Only 38% of Americans have a 4 year college degree, yet American education and hiring system is really only set up to help this minority succeed.
- The “College for all” movement of the last several decades is basically dead and that may not be a bad thing
- White people, generally, are best positioned to skip the college degree.
- A lot of the focus and debate is on elite colleges, which is odd, because they provide 2% of the college “seats” in America
- We are in a period of the great skills shakeup in history, which has upended hiring and will continue to do so.
- AI is both “the race track” for fixing or democratizing the hiring system, but also could be the nemesis for entry level workers.
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