What Every Trustee Needs to Understand About the Convergence Threatening Higher Education

A hiring manager at a mid-sized firm told me recently that his company had started administering its own assessments before extending offers to college graduates. Not because the candidates were unqualified on paper, but because the paper had stopped telling him what he needed to know. “I have no idea what a degree actually certifies anymore,” he said. “So I stopped relying on it.” That sentence should stop every higher education governing board in America cold.