{"id":96347,"date":"2025-08-05T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96347"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:26:18","slug":"1-in-2-graduates-believe-their-college-major-didnt-prepare-them-for-todays-market-crist-other-items-re-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/08\/05\/1-in-2-graduates-believe-their-college-major-didnt-prepare-them-for-todays-market-crist-other-items-re-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"“1 in 2 graduates believe their college major didn\u2019t prepare them for today\u2019s market” [Crist] + other items re: higher ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 in 2 graduates believe their college major didn\u2019t prepare them for today\u2019s market<\/strong><\/a> — from hrdive.com by\u00a0Carolyn Crist
\nRespondents said they felt unprepared in numerous ways, especially finding a job after graduation and navigating student debt and personal finances.<\/em><\/p>\n

As today\u2019s college graduates struggle to start a steady career, 1 in 2 Americans say their college major didn\u2019t prepare them for the job market,\u00a0according to a June 18 report<\/a>\u00a0from Preply.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, 1 in 6 Americans who went to college said they regret it. When thinking about their college experience, college graduates said their top regrets included taking out student loans, not networking more and not doing internships.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

College graduates said they felt unprepared in numerous ways, especially finding a job after graduation and navigating student debt and personal finances.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nThe Career Placement Office at Northwestern University did not help build my skills to get a job, at all. I had no clue what I was doing. I had no idea what networking<\/em> was even about, nor the power of it, and why it would be useful throughout my career<\/em>. They provided conference rooms for interviews to occur…and that was about it, at least in my experience. In terms of my education, I didn’t get any real-world experience (such as apprenticeships, internships, capstone courses, etc.), nor did I pick up many practical or technical skills.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Driving Culture Change in Higher Education<\/strong> <\/a>— from jeffselingo.com by Jeff Selingo<\/p>\n

The call for transformation in higher education has never been louder, yet the path forward remains unclear for many institutions. Leaders often struggle with the \u201chow\u201d of meaningful change. This five-part playbook by higher education author and strategist Jeff Selingo as well as other experts draws on proven methodologies to provide clear, actionable guidance from mapping current institutional culture to sustaining long-term momentum.<\/p>\n

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Employers\u2019 emphasis on skilled trades lost on Gen Z: Harris poll<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from facilitiesdive.com
\nYoung workers don\u2019t realize going into the trades can offer good pay more quickly than pursuing a college-based career, the report says.<\/em><\/p>\n

A mismatch exists between the importance employers are putting on skilled trades and how the generation that\u2019s newly joining the workforce views those jobs,\u00a0a Harris poll finds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gen Z, the oldest members of which are 28, is the age cohort least focused on skilled trades, in part because they\u2019re misinformed about the jobs, says the report based on 2,200 respondents to survey questions posted online in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly 38% of Gen Z says skilled trades offer the best job opportunities today\u201d and \u201conly 36% strongly agree skilled trades offer a faster and more affordable path to a good career,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 in 2 graduates believe their college major didn\u2019t prepare them for today\u2019s market — from hrdive.com by\u00a0Carolyn Crist Respondents said they felt unprepared in numerous ways, especially finding a job after graduation and navigating student debt and personal finances. As today\u2019s college graduates struggle to start a steady career, 1 in 2 Americans say […]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[867,61,174,86,115,302,57,840,159,72,71,3,868,74,560,486,855,66,321,214,852,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apprenticeships","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-culture","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-internships","category-leadership","category-parents-guardians","category-real-world-assignments","category-skills","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vocational-trades","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96347"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96354,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96347\/revisions\/96354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}