Prominent business leaders such as Siemens USA CEO Barbara Humpton and Apple CEO Tim Cook are already questioning the need for four-year degrees altogether. Cook recently saidthat about half of Apple’s US employment last year included people who did not have four-year degrees. Cook reasoned that many colleges do not teach the skills business leaders need most in their workforce, such as coding.
Humpton, too, dismissed the idea that a four-year degree guarantees career-readiness: “All too often, job requisitions will say they require a four-year degree, when in fact there’s nothing about the job that truly requires a four-year degree – it merely helped our hiring managers sort of weed through the crowd and get a smaller qualified candidate group,” Humpton recently said at the White House during the first American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting.
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