Baby boomers come back to college
Entries Tagged as ‘Higher Education’
January 9, 2009
delawareonline | Wilmington Blogs:Second Takes | The News Journal
Governing Magazine reports that perhaps the best people to replace retiring Baby Boomers on the job are other Baby Boomers looking for work.
There’s evidence to suggest that a good number of today’s retirees will want the work. For one thing, some will have no choice but to earn extra income. That’s partially because of what’s [...]
January 9, 2009
Harvard starts program for late-career professionals – International Herald Tribune
“This is about deploying a leadership force to have an impact on major social problems,” said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School who heads the program. “We want to make the case to the world that experience matters.”
Nonprofit organizations face a collective “leadership deficit” over the next decade of more than [...]
January 9, 2009
Open Letter to President-Elect Obama from a University President
Don Kassner, President of Andrew Jackson University writes:
“Former lifelong educator and business guru Peter Drucker, quoted in Forbes several years ago, said “Today’s buildings [college facilities] are hopelessly unsuited and totally unneeded.” He further commented, “colleges won’t survive as residential institutions.” Drucker predicted the Internet would change the way students learned, and the evidence continues [...]
January 9, 2009
Retooling for encore careers
Retooling for encore careers
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January 9, 2009
Top ten retirement trends to watch in 2009 | RetirementRevised
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December 28, 2008
Civic Ventures :: Encore Career Survey
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December 8, 2008
Obama Education Pick Sparks Conflict
The correct choice would be one who realizes that our nation needs a No Person Left Behind, rather than just No Child Left Behind policy. Who would embrace the real problem, that we need to use obsolete baby boomers as national human capital? http://universitylifestyle.wordpress.com/
via Obama Education Pick Sparks Conflict.
December 8, 2008
Our growing education gap
Our growing education gap.
We continue to work hard at correcting the wrong thing. We ask “who will provide the necessary tax base to care for an aging population?” Baby boomers need to take care of themselves, preventing the social burden, by retooling in relevant occupations, and working longer. The already well educated, intelligent, baby boomers(1946-1964), [...]
December 8, 2008
ABC News: Colleges Hope to Boost Sagging Graduation Rates
We continue to look at doing more of the same wrong things! We are not using our national “Human Capital” properly!Baby Boomers(1946-1964) should return to college, full time, in inter generational classrooms to retool, and start new careers for the next 30 years, now that they live to 90, not 65. The $20K/year, (total cost) [...]
