Educators must foster an innovative learning environment that develops employable students who have both hard skills and soft skills. Considerable shares of today's employers say recent college graduates lack problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, according to PayScale's Workforce Skills Preparedness Report. However, you can structure academic programs to increase employability without dismantling educational models or compromising principles.
The Chronicle's latest report,
"Career-Ready Education: Beyond the Skills Gap, Tools and Tactics for an Evolving Economy," moves past the definitions of the skills gap and the accompanying blame game to explore the forces driving change and the challenges ahead. You'll learn how to restructure academic programs to innovate from within, ways to collaborate with employers, and how to alleviate some of the barriers graduates face when starting their careers.
