Overcoming Underemployment

On this episode I dig into how higher education in America started, why the liberal arts are valued (or not), and what today's college students can do to combat underemployment after graduation. Jeff Selingo's tweet Allan Golston's tweet "The portion of incoming freshmen that cited "to be able to get a better job" as a very important reason for attending college reached an all-time high of 87.9 percent in 2012." College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education by Ryan Craig Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---And What We Can Do about It by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus Designing the New American University by Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century by Katherine S. Newman, Hella Winston Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters by Michael S. Roth