Why India’s Infosys has a university of its own MYSORE, India — Employers around the world share a familiar complaint: Universities often don’t prepare students for fast-changing job demands. Too many new graduates need extra preparation before they’re workforce-ready. In India, rather than waiting for higher education to catch up, major employers are designing their own education programs for new hires. It’s a model that offers a glimpse of where some American firms may be heading. Rishi Agrawal knows the college-to-career disconnect firsthand — along with one influential company’s solution. He grew up in a small village in central India.

A 337-acre campus was created to help close the training gaps of thousands of newly hired engineering graduates 

My latest in @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social

India’s Infosys has created a university of its own to train new hires Employers say universities often don’t prepare students for fast-changing job demands, and new graduates are not workforce-ready. In India, major employers are designing their own education programs f...

What happens when a large employer stops waiting for universities to prepare workers? I visited the @infosys.bsky.social 337-acre corporate university in India, where 20,000 new hires train for up to 5 months. New in @hechingerreport.org

I'm excited that The Career Arts is now out in paperback. I've been thinking a lot, inevitably, about its relevance to the age of AI. More to come on that soon!

No Steller sea lions?

Footnotes maybe included in word count for MS Word but not Google docs? Pretty sure I had a similar discrepancy for that reason (and congrats!)

For the Bluesky Pogues catalog - rare French ticket stub

Intoduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Blondie
Black Uhuru
Dead Kennedys
Joan Armatrading
The Pogues

You may not be able to wrap up a good life, but the books in our "Inspiring Ideas for Living Well" gift guide offer abundant wisdom for someone to find a path to living well themselves.

Explore our selections and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/collections/...

#GiftGuide #ReadUP

Vikings also begins with V, and the Vikings were in England, so that settles it.

For the brochure

- I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton. Sort of a professional version, to her former manager, of the love-song break-up:

“Good-bye, please don't cry
'Cause we both know that I'm not
What you need”

Billy Bragg - St Swithin's Day YouTube video by cookingvinylarchive

Billy Bragg - St Swithin’s Day youtu.be/Bl0cXwSa6VY?...

Students’ New Imperative: Always Be Networking The job market stinks and AI is gumming up application systems. So old-fashioned people skills are the new must-have asset.

For @chronicle.com, @wildavsky.bsky.social, author of The Career Arts, spoke with Alexander C. Kafka about networking for college students:

Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge

After the pardons came the purge: The people who beat police officers and tried to block the democratic transfer of power were spared. The people who did their jobs by prosecuting them for their crimes were punished. Dan Barry @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...

Lmk whether Bobby Zimmerman ever visited Winona and encountered antisemitism?

Don't know that one, but remember @princetonupress.bsky.social also has amazing nature books, including birds!

A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands The statement is selling a naked ideological agenda as a defense of campus free speech

This is why I can't endorse the Manhattan Statement (a declaration about higher ed organized by Christopher Rufo of the Manhattan Institute), even though I share some of its goals. www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-manhatta...

I Want to Know by Jimmy Cliff on Apple Music Song · 1974 · Duration 2:46

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Panel - Upskill Battle: The Race to Rewire America's Workforce | Milken Institute AI is already displacing entire sectors of American workers, from software engineers to music producers. But even in an age of machines, we will still need teachers, construction workers, airline…

Tomorrow (May 5) at 11:30 am PDT: @wildavsky.bsky.social, author of The Career Arts, will be moderating @milkeninstitute.org's Global Conference 2025 panel, "Upskill Battle: The Race to Rewire America's Workforce."

For more details, visit:

Soviet Virginia is not for lovers.

Standard Trash Picker - 32 Makes trash cleanup easy on your back. Rubber grippers. Durable aluminum construction will not rust. Locking feature on handle. ULINE offers over 43,000 boxes, plastic poly bags, mailing tubes, wareho...

Next: take this with you on neighborhood walks? www.uline.com/Product/Deta...

Author and Reformer Kathleen deLaski on What a Different Higher Ed Future Could Look Like Podcast Episode · Higher Ed Spotlight · 03/20/2025 · 19m

Kathleen deLaski recently appeared on @wildavsky.bsky.social‬'s #HigherEdSpotlight podcast and spoke about her new book, WHO NEEDS COLLEGE ANYMORE? Listen to the conversation here: https://bit.ly/4hN3HEl

Author and Reformer Kathleen deLaski on What a Different Higher Ed Future… | Ben Wildavsky With traditional higher ed getting more scrutiny than ever in 2025, my latest #HigherEdSpotlight guest is Kathleen deLaski, author of "Who Needs College…

New #HigherEdSpotlight podcast episode with Kathleen deLaski, author of "Who Needs College Anymore?"

Who Needs College Anymore? | Washington Monthly Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

"[College] doesn’t serve the needs of many. There’s a reason only 38 percent of American adults have a degree." —Kathleen deLaski in an interview with @wildavsky.bsky.social for @washingtonmonthly.com‬ https://bit.ly/3XhKOlo

Beautiful. Here’s my own amateur effort: the South Island robin, also known as the kakaruai, taken on the Routeburn Track in New Zealand

Who Needs College Anymore? | Washington Monthly Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

For @washingtonmonthly.com, The Career Arts author @wildavsky.bsky.social spoke with Kathleen deLaski for her new book Who Needs College Anymore? and about how college isn’t right for everyone: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/02/20/w...

Who Needs College Anymore? | Washington Monthly Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

A new book asks how to make higher education not only more accessible but more applicable to Americans’ real lives. @wildavsky.bsky.social sits down with the author:

Who Needs College Anymore? | Washington Monthly Kathleen deLaski's new book asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.

Great conversation w/Kathleen deLaski about her new book Who Needs College Anymore? for this @washingtonmonthly.com Q&A. She calls for a much more expansive definition of college, and better alternatives for “new majority learners” who haven’t been well-served by traditional higher ed.

The World of Higher Education | The Great Brain Race, 15 years later with Ben Wildavsky Join Alex Usher on the World of Higher Education podcast as he revisits 'The Great Brain Race' with author Ben Wildavsky. They explore the book's thesis on globalization in higher education, the tr...

It’s been 15 years since The Great Brain Race by @wildavsky.bsky.social published! Listen to his conversation with Alex Usher for The World of Higher Education about the progress and challenges in global higher education: worlded.transistor.fm/episodes/the...