A CS student wants coding lessons for new hires; policy makers miss the mark on student debt, and more education insights
Last week, we introduced a new feature that enables Influencers to record 30-second videos on topics affecting the professional world today. This question I asked got a lot of Influencers talking—and members commenting:
How should colleges be kept accountable for the success of their students?
Here are a few of my favorite responses:
Gary Vaynerchuk: "I do not believe that colleges are built for the 2017, 2020, 2050 world..."
Jon Fortt: "A college's job is to educate; it's not completely to employ."
Guy Kawasaki: "I don't agree with this question at all...what exactly is success?"
Now, let's jump into some of the best content featured recently in our Education channel. If you want your post to be considered, be sure to use #EdInsights in the body of your next post.
Moving the Needle on Debt: When it comes to the student debt crisis, higher education expert Zakiya Smith says policy makers still don’t get it. Watch as she talks about what officials are missing and how universities can make college more affordable.
Code, or Else: A LinkedIn Campus Editor majoring in computer science at Duke agrees with GE’s CEO: all employees should learn to code.
Breaking Old Habits: A researcher weighs in on America’s antiquated federal loan system and what needs to change to bring it into the 21st century.
Big Data: Wharton’s Dean Geoffrey Garrett writes about a tool created for the public that analyzes big issues taking center stage in this year’s presidential election.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: As one of the only women leading a top business school, Kellogg School of Management Dean Sally Blount offers tips on how women can break into male-dominated fields.
Join the conversation with a post of your own on topics tied to education using #EdInsights in the body.
GE’s CEO wants all new hires to learn to code. What do you think about this? Should more companies do this? What does this say about universities? Could they do more to train students for the new work economy?
In last week’s roundup, I asked readers: What's the climate of free speech on your campus? A graduating senior answered with this post about how free speech is being quelled on DePaul University's campus.
Catch up on last week’s education roundup here.
Correction: The author of this post is a graduating senior from the University of Mary Washington, not DePaul University.
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8 年I really have to agree about coding. Every company that I have worked at, the minimum was that everyone had to know Excel, and it would have been very beneficial if they knew Excel VBA to be able to do more with Excel. I have been learning new coding for at least the last six years. I negotiate as part of my hiring package now. I have learned VBA, SAS, and now R and once I am comfortable with that I will pick the next latest and greatest language that will help my analytics career. I always have something I am learning on the side that I do one hour a day in the morning. You can not stop learning in your job or you will no longer be employable.
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8 年I think, software engineering students like me really need to understand communication and encryption in Python
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8 年Being that I am a computer science major, I wish that coding would be more of a "Taught in the classroom" thing. I am currently Mastering JavaScript and I am teaching myself how to be a master of it. That's fine and all but I would like for coding to be taught more in the field of Computer Science in the classrooms.
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8 年After all that said about helping applicants connect the financial dots, note that liberal arts and social science and education major programs are applicable to just about every area of business. I have a B.A. in psychology, and if I listened to everyone who told me it was a "useless" degree (unless I went for a master's), I would have changed majors, studied something more "useful" that I didn't like as much, and why would I want to have $20,000 in loans for studying something for which I had little enthusiasm? An area of coaching for success should include the information that college-level learning is generalizable and with a practical skill on which to anchor one's job search, again, many many many degree programs are applicable to just about every area of business. I used my writing skills and my "useless" B.A. in psych to work in marketing---several years in public relations and now in business development. I've earned a very good living and paid off my loans in 10 years. Come out of college knowing your strongest skill (writing, math, etc.) and then figure out the career in which that skill is useful, and then learn how the generalized knowledge from the degree applies to that career. It's not that hard to figure out!