{"id":90089,"date":"2024-01-01T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90089"},"modified":"2024-01-01T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:24:38","slug":"nearly-half-of-companies-say-they-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements-in-2024-crist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/01\/01\/nearly-half-of-companies-say-they-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements-in-2024-crist\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of companies say they plan to eliminate bachelor\u2019s degree requirements in 2024\u00a0[Crist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/nearly-half-of-companies-plan-to-eliminate-bachelors-degree-requirements\/702277\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nearly half of companies say they plan to eliminate bachelor\u2019s degree requirements in 2024<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Carolyn Crist<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Many employers are dropping degree requirements to create a more diverse workforce and increase job candidate numbers, survey results show.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 2023, 55% of companies removed degree requirements, particularly for entry-level and mid-level roles, the survey shows. Employers said they dropped these requirements to create a more diverse workforce, increase the number of applicants for open positions and because there are other ways to gain skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cDue to the expense of attending college, earning a bachelor\u2019s degree is generally more difficult for people from traditionally marginalized groups and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds,\u201d Diane Gayeski, higher education advisor for Intelligent.com and professor of strategic communication at Ithaca College, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of companies say they plan to eliminate bachelor\u2019s degree requirements in 2024\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Carolyn Crist Many employers are dropping degree requirements to create a more diverse workforce and increase job candidate numbers, survey results show. In 2023, 55% of companies removed degree requirements, particularly for entry-level and mid-level roles, the survey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,387,61,174,86,115,302,112,57,3,206,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-higher-education","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90139,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90089\/revisions\/90139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}