Higher Education and Employability: New Models for Integrating Study and Work

Stokes, Peter J.

ISBN 10: 161250826X / ISBN 13: 9781612508269

Published by Harvard Education Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Higher Education and Employability: New Models for Integrating Study and Work
• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161250826X
• ISBN 13: 9781612508269
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

2016 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Professional, Continuing, and/or Online Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA)

Higher Education and Employability makes a crucial contribution to the current reassessment of higher education in the United States by focusing on how colleges and universities can collaborate with businesses in order to serve the educational and professional interests of their students. Drawing on his extensive experience with universities and the business world, Peter J. Stokes argues that the need for closer alignment between the two sectors has never been more critical—and that the opportunities for partnership have never been greater.

This book includes a series of trenchant case studies of particular universities that have developed ambitious collaborative programs—New York University, Northeastern University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Incisive and practical, this book surveys the full range of current partnerships between businesses and higher education and points to opportunities that will best serve students now and in the future.

About the Author

Over the course of a twenty-year career in higher education, Peter Stokes has been employed as a teacher, researcher, consultant, business leader, writer, and university administrator. Today he works as a managing director in the higher education practice at Huron Consulting Group. He lives just outside of Boston with his wife and two children.