Issue 40: A Lost Generation
The latest on the pandemic’s impact on children, higher ed’s mounting challenges, and long-term labor shortages. Also, Amazon backs community colleges and new evidence on college majors’ impact on inequity in earnings.
Issue 38: Starting early
A look at how companies are seeking career pipelines for high school students, including the millions who are being homeschooled. Also, the boom in cannabis credentials and a new potential setback for income-share agreements.
Issue 37: Vanishing for-profits
A temperature check with the University of Phoenix, which has pared back its offerings and may be poised for a sale. Also, dropping the ban on paying medical assistant students and research on career prep for undergrads.
Big Tech’s Two-Year College Push
Major tech companies are expanding their collaboration with community colleges and other open-access institutions, increasingly putting real money and support behind those partnerships.
A conversation with Wake Forest’s Andy Chan
Andy Chan touched a nerve almost a decade ago when he argued in a TEDx talk that "career services must die." Since then, his ideas have gone mainstream. We caught up with him about what's changed for career development and what's next.
As Amazon goes…
Another corporate giant offers "free college" for employees, as the competition and complexities in the education benefits market expand.
What wraparound supports are most important? It’s all the things, together
Chicago-based One Million Degrees has a proven track record of providing quality holistic supports. Outgoing CEO Paige Ponder talked to Work Shift about what the organization has learned through time and research, and why it's so hard to scale.
New research finds a big mismatch between the certificates that pay off and the ones students earn
More than half of college certificate programs provide no short-term ROI, and those are the ones that students disproportionately attend.
NSF and Stanford kick off a new ‘science of working learners’
The market for non-degree programs has sped ahead of experts’ understanding of which credentials actually help people land good, well-paying jobs. A new national research collaborative aims to catch up.
Walmart and Target up the ante with ‘free college’ for employees
More companies are expected to match the retail giants' moves, as companies compete for workers. Experts say that's good for access to education, and the jury is out on long-term mobility.