Higher Learning and The Future of Workers

ep244: Today, we welcome Joe Sallustio, Sr VP of Strategic Enrollment Management at Lindenwood University to help us look critically at the relationship between the workforce and academia. For example, while businesses face the great resignation, universities similarly face the great enrollment cliff. Also, as AI is changing how we operate our businesses, it’s just as rapidly transforming how institutions operate.

And sure, when hiring, a college degree shaves some risk, but what is it really worth? And how does that value compare to skill stacking?

 

Lawyer on the Clock

3:34 - The Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action policies in higher education. Could companies’ voluntary diversity and inclusion efforts be in legal jeopardy?

 

Philburt’s Phorum

14:08 - Student loans, due dates, and seventh year seniors. 

 

The Employers’ Lounge

16:08 - Joe Sallustio discusses going from hating school, to a career in academia, his podcast The EdUp Experience, and his book Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education.

 

19:28 - How is the great resignation affecting the university setting? Teachers and professors are leaving the industry and there are not going to be as many 17 and 18 year olds enrolling. 

 

22:38 - Once concern as businesses look to take on the newest technology is, it takes four years to get a degree, and your curriculum could already be outdated by the time you graduate. 

 

25:00 - How do we protect IP in the age of AI? How do you work with students and employees who come in expecting to be able to use AI as a tool.

 

29:32 - What is skill stacking? How can employers evaluate skills without a degree backing it up?

 

Host(s): 

Phil Brandt, President and CEO, AAIM Employers’ Association

Burt Garland, Shareholder, Ogletree Deakins

 

Special Guest(s): 

Joe Sallustio, Senior Vice President, Strategic Enrollment Management, Lindenwood University

 

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