Is Going Off to College Still The Way to Go?
Unemployed college graduates saddled with student loan debt is a story we're increasingly hearing. The world is changing and some are questioning whether universities are the best path to preparing for the brave new world. The UNcollege movement is challenging the fundamental notion of what college is and pointing the way toward another paradigm for getting and applying knowledge. Dale Stephens leads UnCollege, the global social movement changing the notion that college is the only path to success. In May 2011 Dale was selected as a Thiel Fellow and his first book Hacking Your Education, will be published by Perigee/Penguin in early 2013. Nathan Furr writes about the transforming paradigm of entrepreneurship education. Justin Snider is a contributing editor at The Hechinger Report and is completing his doctorate in education at Columbia University.