In the first episode of the 2019-2020 school year, Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn spend time discussing some of the higher education news headlines from the summer, including Amazon’s new job training program and university president turnover.
Michael Horn explains, “A lot of professors for a long time have said, ‘Job training—not our business,’ so Amazon said ‘Okay, not your business, we will do that ourselves.’”
Listen to the podcast here.
This podcast is created and produced by higher education experts Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn. Selingo, a FutureEd senior fellow and former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, is special advisor and professor of practice at Arizona State University, and a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. Horn is chief strategy officer for the Entangled Group, an education investment firm, and a senior partner at Entangled Solutions, an education consulting company. Selingo and Horn can be contacted here. Future U is supported by the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership, a partnership between Arizona State University and Georgetown University, and by Entangled Solutions.
