Jeffrey Selingo
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- Milken Institute58 min
The Future of Higher Education
Jeffrey Selingo, Bill Achtmeyer, Rafael Bras, Mitch Daniels, Yoshimasa Hayashi, Candace Thille
Facing record tuition discount rates and a growing skills gap where 89% of employers find graduates unprepared, higher education is pivoting from a traditional four-year degree model to a "100-year lifetime" framework of recurrent, skills-based learning. Leaders at institutions like Georgia Tech and Purdue, notably Mitch Daniels, are driving this transformation through aggressive online expansion, AI integration, and financial innovations like Income Share Agreements to ensure affordability and relevance. As smaller schools face potential closure, the sector is consolidating around agile, market-driven models that treat credentials as dynamic data sets of verified competencies rather than static diplomas.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
New Educational Pathways to Middle-Class Jobs
Jeffrey Selingo, Joseph Aoun, Gene Block, John Hickenlooper, Gail Mellow, Gregg Roden, Jeff Selingo, Patrick Fine, Nick Hilsner, Mark Yossowitz, Ray Jacobson, Jason Summers
Panelists from government, industry, and academia address the widening gap between traditional education and modern workforce demands by showcasing employer-led apprenticeships and micro-credentialing programs at Frito-Lay, LaGuardia Community College, and Colorado. Experts advocate for integrating "robot-proof" soft skills and coding literacy into core curricula while shifting toward lifelong learning models that combine technical training with human-centric adaptability. The discussion concludes that without systemic reforms including state-sponsored national service and expanded private-sector training, automation will increasingly displace workers, exacerbating wage stagnation and unemployment.