A Model For The College That Doesnt Suck: Year one: teach basic entrepreneur skills, communication, money management, and all that other college type stuff. make it free (Seriously) The only tuition would be to publish your understanding of the work, and explore your own passions by writing and publishing on that topic as well. (no cost to students) At the end of the year, NO GRADES except the bottom half of the class is cut, the top half is determined by the media impact they created (either individually or collectively in teams) Thats it. On to year two. Year two: The beginning of the year, the students embark on finding a few causes and or needs to serve (businesses) and align into what seems right for them. They are learning from better teachers dealing with more engaged students and if the teachers are full of shit, the students will (statistically) be a lot more likely to call them out in public. (A Good Thing) so only REALLY good teachers would want to work in that environment. REAL talent WANTS to work where the stakes are high, it will reward them faster... A small fee to be paid in year two, to be applied to cost to run the school, and as VC for the startups that become viable. At the end of year two, the bottom half of the class is cut.Same criteria as year one. Year three, the average student is 3 TIMES more likely then the general college population to be engaged and service oriented and teachers like Richard Branson start showing up.. (It would just make sense, guys like him Get the value of having first crack at people like this... A larger fee is charged for tuition / VC in the schools projects. The businesses are either developed alongside of teaching topics, the whole thing takes on the feel of a case study in the teaching topics at hand Real world applications of the teaching lessons. If the lessons are sound, the businesses / charities / research works. If they are not sound, they fail. Thats the point. Students are LEARNING and gaining experience in their fields simultaneously. All the while students are developing their passions, aligning with others who are developing their unique passions and value, things are good :-) End of year three, bottom half of students are cut, same criteria. Year 4, BIG tuition is charged (By now, the remaining students will KNOW the value of it, so it wont be hard to get, and my guess is corporate sponsors will be champing at the bit to pre hire them anyway) The faculty would have some unbelievably big names in business etc, because these students are already proven winners (I call them 4s) The students are given equity in the businesses they are creating, incenting them to build the businesses even beyond the end of the final year (And also lowering the supply of available graduates, driving the value of students who DO look for jobs higher) This was typed out in the middle of an inspiration. It may have typos etc, its is certainly in need of more development. But its a big, radical thought and it looks to me like it deserves to be born. Colleges are broken, graduates are commoditized. Life will be tough for them. Here is what I would ask: Send this to your favorite college student. if they hate it violently, they are afraid of the first year cut, and have evidence in their gut they are unwilling to compete. (I diddnt say unABLE because we all are able) College students: Polish this into something coherent, lets do it together. (If you care to bother to help with this, you will likely not get cut) ;-) Forward it to every real leader you know and ask them if having access to a group of engaged, abundant people who spent 4 years developing their PASSION in a quantifiable way, would be an incredible value to their business. (If they dont say yes, whatever you do, DO NOT go to work for them) If you REALLY want to know if they agree, ask them to publish it on their own blogs / social media sites, it will be a fun test ;-) I dont care if I make a nickel from this, id certainly not mind though :-) Keep me in the loop, I have some more ideas like this. I think this is a workable way to repair the futures of all the Millenials who are about to take the screwing of their lives when they go enter the workplace. Ok, lets get to work. :-)
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:16:35 +0000