Lets face it, the world is changing, and it's changing quickly. Just having a degree is no longer your ticket to a career. Experience talks, and college grads are not gaining the necessary skills that employers are looking for. Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg is quoted in the article "I Don't Want My Kids To Go To College" as saying “Recent college grads… come in with no skills that are usable to us, with the exception of programmers,”. He argues that a degree does not represent a skill or an asset, but instead it is proof of debt. Employers are all competing with one another to stay relevant in a constantly progressing market, and University's are just not producing what they need. In the article "Why Go To College At All?" Dale Stephens articulates this very well by saying “Taking a psychology course doesn’t mean you know what it’s like to work as a psychologist. Better to observe, shadow and perhaps intern with professionals".
Both articles represent a shared idea that colleges are not changing with the times. The old model that they are based on are doing their students a disservice and employers are turning applicants away because they just do not have what it takes to be successful in the new generation of industry.
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