Making a Life in Education: Preparing Young Minds for Launch into the Workforce

Summary: The business of higher education is a challenging yet rewarding place to make a career and have tremendous impact on thousands of lives. Preparing young minds to successfully enter the workforce and connect them with opportunities requires a relentless laser focus and collaborative team effort, which is the strategic directive adopted by this episode’s guest. In this conversation, we talk about Dr. McMillen’s choice to pursue a career in education, the work he and his team are doing to serve its annual study body of 4,500 and get them productively into the workforce, discuss five trends that affect higher education and how it operates to affect student outcomes.