With tuitions steadily on the rise, Universities and colleges will continue to feel pressure as they promise “career-ready” degrees but continue to graduate students unprepared for the workplace. The finest of these institutions are blending academic rigor with a non-academic curriculum to meet the needs of modern employers, those demanding commercial workplace skills from the start.

Employers no longer have the budgets or time to invest in training recent graduates. They need those graduates to be productive from the start.

Much of this is to the dismay of the accreditation bodies that exist to assure institutions of higher education focus on academic rigor rather than on skills necessary to operate in the commercial workplace.

I have strong opinions and ideas about a blended institution that will educate and train. And not simply by accepting contributions from corporations, but by merging the strengths of progressive educational institutions with those of commercial entities.

There’s more to come…