The Potential Dark Side of a White-Hot Labor Market “We worry about their long-term futures, if this derails them from ever going to college, for a $17 to $19 Target job. That’s a loss,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor at Northeastern University who researches labor economics and youth development.
Outsourcing Students’ Tech Skills Training Podium’s model of partnering and working alongside institutions is a relatively new type of boot camp, said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. When boot camps first exploded in 2015, Gallagher said, they typically operated separately from institutions, but now they’re more likely […]
Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts Christoph Riedl is an associate professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, at Northeastern University. His research focuses on collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, and digital business transformation, including the role of AI for the future of work.
With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests Nearly one in four businesses now conduct such assessments, the National Association of Colleges and Employers reports; nearly 40 percent of hiring executives expect them to become widespread within three years and 70 percent within five, according to a survey conducted in 2018 by Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy.
The Seattle Times AI is here to stay, but are we sacrificing safety and privacy? A free public Seattle U course will explore that The public’s desire for more guidance around AI may be reflected in a recent Northeastern University and Gallup survey that found only 22% of U.S. respondents believed colleges or universities were adequately preparing students for the future of work.
Forbes How To Make Yourself Robot-Proof Rather than thinking about education as something that’s finished at college or graduate school, we have entered a period of history in which learning has to be embraced as a lifelong process. Schools, in particular, need to emphasize early on how to help learners embrace how to think creatively throughout life. So argues Joseph E. […]
The Degree Rules, for Now Recent headlines have touted the move by several big employers to stop requiring new hires to hold college degrees. Meanwhile, a drumbeat of studies show increasing labor market returns for degrees, and employers say they value the critical thinking skills of liberal arts graduates. These seemingly oppositional trends are both real and on display in a new report from Northeastern University’s Center for the Future […]
Slate Just in Time for Whom? For generations, colleges and universities have had a monopoly on credentials. But as the global economy demands more skills and competencies for individuals to keep up with an ever-expanding base of knowledge, “we’re going to need more recognition for the learning and skills development that happens outside the higher-education system,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director […]
The Hechinger Report After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople Career education boosters also say job-focused courses — and accompanying apprenticeships — can provide students with essential “soft skills” such as communication and conflict resolution that foster teamwork and reduce stress. And schools should consider blending traditional college courses with vocational ones, said Sean Gallagher, who recently founded Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of […]
Summer jobs boost employment skills, academic aspirations, study finds Because the control group was more likely to be over age 16, white, and come from two-parent, English-speaking households, and therefore more likely to have job skills and higher educational goals, the results are conservative, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, the Northeastern University professor who coauthored the study with Trinh Nguyen, director of the Mayor’s Office […]
How a million planning meetings taught me to humanize: Reflecting on the New England Interfaith Student Summit his past Friday, the student leaders of the Northeastern University Interfaith Council (NUIC) welcomed over 100 students and staff from college campuses around New England to the first ever New England Interfaith Student Summit (NEISS). The day made me nostalgic for my last year at the University of Southern California (USC), the year I wrote […]
WGBH Reflection and Hammurabi code befalls Boston after Tsarnaev verdict Bostonians are coming off a much-needed weekend of reflection following the death sentence verdict of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Monday morning, Professors Daniel Medwed of Northeastern University Law and Robert Bloom from Boston College Law joined Morning Edition host Bob Seay to review the importance of the verdict and future developments in the case.