Discussing higher education, jobs, and inequality with Tony Carnevale

This past Thursday the Future Trends Forum hosted professor Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Our discussion explored higher education and its many connections to economics, from how to support first-generation college students to the role academia plays in exacerbating economic inequality. That last point became the hour’s major theme.

The hour was so rich that I wanted to share it all here. Plus I wanted to make available parts that not everybody got to experience.

First, here’s the full session recording:

Second, a huge number of questions came in — ultimately around 30, including one a Forum friend who couldn’t make it asked me to pose plus a couple hoisted from the chat. They were so productive that we couldn’t get to all of them in the single hour we had, so here are the unposed queries and comments, since you can hear the asked questions in the video above. I have anonymized each questioner and commentator.

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