Businesses are increasingly offering their own credentialing programs, creating a kind of “alternative education system” for people who want better job opportunities but don’t have a conventional college education. This is great news. Only 30% of Americans have a college degree, yet more and more jobs require some kind of college-level training. The more opportunities […]
Many working adults who want to start a new, better, career are stymied by three factors. The first is that they don’t have the technical skills needed to get a better job. That’s the one everybody understands. But there are two other factors that get a lot less attention that are just as important. You […]
Jonathan King’s life was shaped by a terrible tragedy. Growing up in Albany, Georgia, his parents were devoted to the struggle for civil rights. When he was five years old, Jonathan King was arrested along with his parents, and his mother lost her five-month pregnancy at the hands of police. It was an awful time, […]
Three million fewer Americans are going to college than were a decade ago, and that likely means millions more who may lack access to high quality labor market opportunities, face long-term unemployment, and struggle with poverty. Studies show that people who stop their education at high school are four times more likely than people with […]
It makes sense that successful students are more likely to be satisfied with their education — but new scholarship suggests that it goes both ways. Students who are more satisfied with the experience they have at college are more likely to be successful in it. “Several scholars have found that students’ college satisfaction predicts their […]
We had a busy year! Almost half-way through the 7 year “start-up” period provided in Calbright’s founding legislation, 2021 was a milestone year as we build California’s first fully online, competency-based community college. First, we built a whole new kind of education model and infrastructure, and made sure it works. Now, as we enter 2022 […]
America has two different economies right now: one for college graduates, and one for everybody else. As a new report by [email protected] shows, on average: It takes 30 years of work experience for an adult without a college degree to catch up to the wage a bachelor’s degree holder earns on the first day of […]
We’ve known for a while that the pandemic has most hurt the people who were already the most vulnerable. A new editorial in Forbes takes it a step further, saying that the tech industry is now in a make-or-break moment for hiring women. Recent reports have said that women in tech have been dramatically more […]
Last week Julia Michaels, executive director of the Center for Public University Transformation at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, added her voice to the chorus of people saying that higher education is at a critical turning point. “The pandemic and a long-overdue racial reckoning have highlighted the urgency of tackling head-on the structural […]
California is facing a crisis: we have too many jobs that require higher education, and not enough education for Californians. A new report by the Campaign for College Opportunity makes it clear: our higher education systems aren’t keeping up with demand. Each year tens of thousands of qualified Californians can’t find spaces in the state’s […]
