• 3/6/25 - Smart Brief | link

Opinion article - “This creates an advising dilemma for high schools. They now see significantly fewer students opting to attend degree programs after graduation than 15 years ago. But what alternative paths can counselors recommend without being accused of “tracking,” the much-maligned practice of advising students toward a non-college path?”

• 2/27/25 - Financial Times | link

  Review - “This is thought-provoking reading for anyone with an interest in what might come next.”

• 2/26/25 - Strategy Skills podcast | link

  We discuss the changing role of college and the impact of the pandemic on workforce dynamics and the shift towards shorter, job-focused educational pathways.

• 2/24/25 - Inside Higher Ed | link

Q&A - “I still am very pro degree, but I feel like I’ve met so many people for whom it didn’t work that I am in the camp now where I want other pathways to help people get to the same level of economic success.”

• 2/20/25 - Washington Monthly | link

Q&A - Great conversation with Ben Wildavsky - “[College] doesn’t serve the needs of many. There’s a reason only 38 percent of American adults have a degree. I felt compelled to write the book because we’re sending these competing messages to families–one of which is that college is too expensive, and the other is that you need a college degree to get a good job.”

• 2/14/25 - Michael Horn Newsletter | link

Q&A - “I am trying to highlight the fact that the four year degree model only serves a minority of American adults—38%—so we need to stop treating it as the only aspirational brand to reach the American Dream.”

• 2/14/25 - CEO World | link

Opinion article: “Community Colleges: Your New Best Friend” - making the case for why businesses should embrace alternative paths.

• 2/7/25 - Community College Daily | link

Excerpt from Who Needs College Anymore? - “Community college enrollment has fallen 37% since 2010, by nearly 2.6 million. And the data were telling colleges that more students wanted career-focused, shorter-term programs. While four-year universities have an average attrition rate of 25% after the first year, at two-year colleges, it’s almost twice that bad, which suggests the old degree model is not meeting enough of them where they are. If anything can save these colleges, numbers show that it is probably shorter-term certificates, which are gaining in popularity at many community colleges.”

• 2/3/25 - Hechinger Report | link

Opinion article: We must acknowledge that students are asking for options beyond the four-year college degree: It is time to expand the definition of college to include other high-quality pathways

• 1/27/25 - Trending in Education I link

  “You almost snuck a memoir into a book about the future of higher ed and did so in a really human, authentic and compelling way. It’s a much more personal conversation than I was expecting.”

• 1/20/25 - Worklife | link

“Institutions of higher ed should move to a ‘stepladder’ approach where students are directly prepared for a first job and can even gain on-the-job experience, deLaski believes. With such a model, students would complete their studies in short bursts of six months to a year — not unlike a series of ‘bootcamps’ between early-career jobs or on the side. Many community colleges have adopted such a model, dubbed ‘micro-pathways.’”

• 1/7/25 - Apprenticeship 2.0 podcast | link

“It's a very important book. I predict it will make a deep impact on the way people in America think about college and degrees and apprenticeships and work-based learning in 2025.”—Joe Ross, President of Reach University, host of Apprenticeship 2.0