WGBH University Presidents on the Future of College What’s the future of higher education? There might be no one better to answer the question than Lawrence Bacow, the former president of Tufts, and Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern.
WGBH The Future of College The price of college has been skyrocketing for years – many private schools are closing in on $60,000 a year once you factor in books, mandatory fees, and housing. And, online courses are now proliferating: we’re facing obvious questions: what will happen to the traditional university? The quad? The professors? And, perhaps most importantly, the […]
EducationDive Survey: Only 22% of Americans say colleges prepare workers for future jobs Only 22% of American adults say they agree colleges are adequately preparing their graduates “for future jobs involving technology,” according to a recent report from Gallup and Northeastern University that looks at how the U.S. and other countries are preparing for artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs.
Are colleges preparing students for the automated future of work? But it’s not clear that simply adding education, particularly early in one’s life, will be enough to keep up in this new era. “If a job can be automated in the future, it will be,” Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, told me. “Very few are talking about the implications for […]
How college students should prepare for our automated future Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun, author of “Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” writes why universities with the audacity to change represent humanity’s best chance to win the jobs of the future and keep up in the age of artificial intelligence.
Colleges of the future must go back to the future While I agree that the model of higher education will change in the future, that many institutions will close — Sweet Briar College is a recent casualty — and that technology will continue to impact the delivery of knowledge, we need to approach such changes with caution. For example, we should not presume that Generation […]
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/28/opinion/quincy-market-history-future/ Ted Landsmark, who like me came to Boston in the early ’70s, is a professor of urban policy at Northeastern University and a past president of the Boston Architectural College.
Amazon’s Employees Can Go to College, Free. What’s in It for Higher Ed? The pandemic seems to have increased the appetite of employers to offer tuition-benefit programs, said Sean R. Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies. “There’s been a renewed emphasis and, it appears, an increase in funding for worker upskilling,” Gallagher […]
Earning a Living and College Credit at the Same Time “There’s been a great deal of attention and energy focused on apprenticeships for the last four years or so,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. “And we see them as one important model on a broader spectrum of work-integrated or experiential learning. Many […]
A New Player in the College Completion Market Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, said it makes sense to try to scale UNT’s B.A.A.S. degree program with Coursera. “As much energy as there is around nondegree credentials, bachelor’s degrees are still highly demanded in the job market,” he said in […]
EdSurge Walmart Chooses Three Colleges Where Its Employees Can Study For $1 a Day Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, sees it as part of a “competition for talent” at a time of low unemployment. Employers like Walmart and Starbucks typically have high employee turnover, and they know that training new workers is expensive. So education […]
Colleges assure prospective students that protesting for gun control will not affect their admission Colleges nationwide, including Northeastern University, are standing by their future students, as teenagers across the country demand stricter gun control laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month.