Apprenticeship degree

Things two years ago that seemed impossible suddenly are now thought of differently and almost approach conventional wisdom.

And so easy truths are the things that everybody now agrees with when it comes to apprenticeship degrees.

But my question to you is, what are those easy truths now that are actually wildly different from the assumptions of two or three years ago?

Yeah, I would say that apprenticeship degrees can exist in the United States and that there's an appetite for them.

This wasn't necessarily two years ago, but not too much earlier than that.

You and I got a nasty gram from a nameless figure at the Department of Labor via one of our funders saying, hey, stop telling people about these things called apprenticeship degrees that doesn't exist in the United States.

You can't talk about that.

We don't have those here.

I think, you know, apprenticeships, it's really growing in the national conversation right now.

What is kind of the work that went into creating the right environment to launch these apprenticeship degrees?

I think at the heart of the apprenticeship degrees is really the changing role of the employer, right? And the changing role of, or the changing role really characteristics of what partnerships looks like at community colleges.

Before this is relatively transactional.

You go and get a bunch of internships from your employers and, you know, they're short in duration.