There are 4633 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States. This weekend I had dinner with one of them—a friend who’s now the president of Philadelphia University. He’s working hard to reinvent the school into a model for 21st century professional education.
The Silo Career Track
One of the problems in business today is that college graduates trained in a single professional discipline (i.e. design, engineering or business) end up graduating as domain experts but with little experience working across multiple disciplines.
To read the full, original article click on this link: College and Business Will Never Be the Same: Philadelphia University Integrates Design, Engineering and Commerce | Xconomy
Author: Steve Blank
