Arizona's ECE Department began teaching its senior-level capstone design courses as "writing emphasis" courses to assist students in developing their writing skills prior to graduation, as well as to link communication skills and coursework to create graduates proficient in both written and oral communication.
"We actually create graduates who are much better health care providers.
The implications for the higher education sector are clear: create graduates who are more agile, have a solid understanding of how the workplace works and can see how their skills fit into it.
In Silicon Valley, for example, Y Combinator provides a learning environment that looks somewhat similar to an institute of higher learning, but rather than create graduates shouldering debts (which impact their career choices), it produces graduates who learn relevant skills, create companies, and earn money along the way.
Educators need to identify and address a need in higher education to transform learning to make it more justifiable to students, parents and employers; to create graduates who can innovate, create, think and adapt to a rapidly changing economic, social, technical, environmental and global culture.
And it created graduated scales of punishment, allowing the law to distinguish between someone with a single joint and someone with a pound of marijuana.
We've required seat belts and air bags, we've created graduated licenses for young drivers, and we have engineered roads and intersections so that accidents are less lethal.
It was announced on Wednesday that £26m, a significant chunk of the Ertegun fortune, was being offered to Oxford to create graduate scholarships in perpetuity in fields across music, literature, history, archaeology and art history.
Mrs. de la Cruz, who moved much of her world-class contemporary art from her home to the de la Cruz Collection in the Design District in 2009, said Miami universities needed to create graduate programs that would act as springboards for talented young artists.
