Should My Kid Still Go to College? – WGU President Scott Pulsipher

Scott Pulsipher isn't scared of what AI will do to education. Which is strange, given that he runs Western Governors University, the largest university in the country: nonprofit, online, nearly 200,000 students. A lot of other university leaders are scared, and he says they probably should be. He doesn't believe anyone can predict the future of work, so WGU looks 12 to 36 months out at how jobs are actually changing and works backward into what students learn. He'd also like to shrink the four-year degree to one or two years, with the rest earned on the job. So Connor asks him the question everybody actually wants answered: should my kid go to college? They get into: his answer, from the person with the most to lose from saying no why job skills now expire faster than a four-year degree can teach them his "yes and no" on whether college is still the path to the American dream the question he uses to test whether a college remembers who it's for: "what does the world lose if you don't exist?" the week at Amazon when twenty-six of his peers told him to his face how he actually made them feel, and the sentence from his boss that put him back together the three things that have to be true before anyone can change Plus: a rocket scientist uncle who shook satellites until the parts fell off, how he went from twenty years in tech to a university he'd never heard of, and six kids, four grandkids, and a wife who took one look at him that Friday night and asked what happened. If you're trying to work out whether college is still worth it, for your kid or for yourself, start here.