Episode 186: Experiencing Higher Education

Our response to COVID has imposed changes across the whole economy. One of the industries that is likely to bear the lion’s share of those changes is higher education. COVID policies are laying bare the fact that both students and administrators have come to regard college less as a place to obtain an education than as a place to obtain a four-year “experience.”

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Virtual Graduation

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/asia/india-university-virtual-reality-graduation-scli-intl/index.html

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How Not to Be Terrible at College

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