Growth of Corporate Colleges
"U.S. colleges aren't producing enough graduates with the skills companies need. So corporations are partnering with community colleges and alternative credentialing programs to build worker pipelines.
Driving the news: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced yesterday that a cloud computing degree program developed with Amazon Web Services will be expanded to colleges statewide in Virginia, where the company has major data center operations.
What's happening: Tech companies in particular are helping design curriculums to ensure students graduate with the exact skills they need to walk directly into jobs.
In Phoenix, 10 local community colleges are working with Intel, Boeing, Apple and Cisco to teach specific skills so students can immediately work in emerging fields such as autonomous driving and blockchain-related businesses.
IBM has partnered with 19 community colleges to review curriculums, provide in-class expertise and apprenticeships to prepare students for "new collar" jobs in areas like cloud computing, cybersecurity and mainframes.
Facebook, Tableau and others award co-branded certificates with community colleges through startup Pathstream.
Alternative programs like those offered through the coding boot camp Lambda School are built around the skills Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others say they are seeking in employees.
By the numbers: The U.S. has more than 700,000 open technology jobs, but universities are producing only about one-tenth that number of computer science graduates." Axios
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