The current brouhaha over the possible increase of federal student loan rates masks a greater problem: We are graduating a generation of people with college-level skills that our companies don’t value. This is the root of the “jobless recovery.” Businesses need capabilities that fresh graduates don’t offer; thus the recent Huffington Post report that half of today’s college graduates are under- or unemployed. A classical education imparting cultural breadth absolutely creates and sustains a nation of values, rather than a collection of skills without a context.
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Closing the Tech Ed Gap: Earning a Degree in Employability
Posted by: Andrea Belz May 1, 2012 05:00 AMThe current brouhaha over the possible increase of federal student loan rates masks a greater problem: We are graduating a generation of people with college-level skills that our companies don’t value. This is the root of the “jobless recovery.” Businesses need capabilities that fresh graduates don’t offer; thus the recent Huffington Post report that half of today’s college graduates are under- or unemployed. A classical education imparting cultural breadth absolutely creates and sustains a nation of values, rather than a collection of skills without a context.