Education Dive – Kelly Field
“Community colleges that have embraced embedding say it gives their graduates an edge in a competitive job market and helps keep their curriculum current. Employers say it reduces their training costs. Yet even the most ardent advocates of embedding acknowledge that expanding it to four-year colleges, and scaling it across institutions, won’t be easy. Faculty at four-year colleges are less accustomed to collaborating with industry than are their community college peers, and they tend to view their mission as broader than workforce prep. Some professors will see changes to the curricula as teaching for an industry-sponsored test.” (more)