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In Defense of Colleges Offering an “Influencer”Major (opens the original)
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When I heard the news that the first colleges are succumbing to teenage pressure to launch an “influencer” major, I tried to be outraged. Being an influencer is a red herring career, is it not? Did MrBeast study to learn how to earn his $300 million in income just this year? Surely not. He got lucky. I think most parents feel it’s akin to letting your child major in NBA basketball, when only 1% of college basketball players make it to the big time. Only 4% of social media influencers will break
This fall's hottest trend on campus: Experiential Learning (opens the original)
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Skills-based hiring may be on the rise, but how are job applicants supposed to get those skills, now that boot camps are pretty much dead?I still remember the day I walked into my first boot camp in 2014.So much energy and testosterone as activity hummed through “1776”, DC’s first prominent tech startup hub, (even President Obama visited). General Assembly, the country’s first large bootcamp, sprawled across the ground floor. You’d encounter mostly 20-something guys in hip T-shirts, immersed in
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