This is The Best Idea I Have Seen Related to Equity
There are lots of ways to learn and grow skills and college is just one -- historically, most Americans have gained skills and improved their lives through learning and development in the workplace. Stop the crazy over-credentialism of work. Stop demanding a $100,000 education expenditure to qualify for a job where zero of the relevant jobs skills were taught in college. I understand that college is used as a proxy for being long-term focused and goal oriented, but those can be demonstrated at least as well through work. This is term would (hopefully) ease the pressure to dumb down education for the truly gifted.
Millions of jobs requiring a four-year college degree can be done without that level of education, some corporate leaders say. They suggest that companies shake up their approach to hiring and consider unconventional candidates. https://t.co/XyJQ1HhzXL
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 5, 2021
Postscript: I will add that a good portion of my executive team and field managers never went to college. Has zero effect on their performance, except it gives some of them an inferiority complex I have to keep trying to overcome.
