Life After College

By Arnold Kling

Can the four-year degree be saved? Not for most learners, I would argue. Once less expensive alternative pathways become clearer and surer, a full-on degree will seem impractical… But why does the degree have to be the only product that colleges sell? And why can’t the American Dream be achieved by other college products, other constructs of career preparation and adultification? —Kathleen deLaski, Who Needs College Anymore? (page 166)

For many years, America’s leaders adopted the goal that college should be for everyone. Kathleen deLaski says that it is time to provide a different path for young people to follow to find their place in the workforce.

DeLaski has spent decades in the field of alternative approaches to workforce development. Her focus is almost entirely on how young people can prepare for jobs. The larger question of how college might lead to a “life well lived” is largely outside the scope of her book.

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