Is College Adequately Preparing Students For Work

Faisal Wasili
ELI 072
April, 25, 2016
Is College Preparing Student for Work? The two articles, “How Colleges — and Employers — Fail to Prepare Students for Work” by Wharton School on the University of Pennsylvania (2015) and “Is College Adequately Preparing Students for the Workforce?” by Rogers (2014), talk about the differences and similarities between college and work. Specifically, both the articles talk about if colleges prepare students for work or not. Also the author of, “Is College Adequately Preparing Students for the Workforce?” and the author of “How Colleges — and Employers — Fail to Prepare Students for Work” they talk abut the differences between colleges and students if they prepare for work, and they talk about college’s
it is about finding a job after graduation and is they prepare students for work. For example, in the article, Peter Cappelli, in an interview says that parents, students, and employers are often worried about finding work after graduation (Wharton,2015). This means students are worried about finding a job after graduation because they are not prepared for work. Author Kate Rogers, in her article, says that “employers don’t feel college is preparing students for the workforce (73%)” (Rogers, 2014). This mean 73 percent of employee feel colleges not prepare students for work. In my experience Central Michigan University prepare student by giving them part time job by that they can get experience about work. Some colleges in the United State and in Saudi Arabia prepare students for work and some colleges not. For example, the colleges in Saudi Arabia prepare students for work by giving them part time job or specific classes teach them about work, and students who want to be a teacher colleges making them teach some classes in elementary school or middle school. According to the two articles some colleges prepare students for work and some colleges
For example, The Wharton School on the University of Pennsylvania write that “STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math — and the idea that we need lots more STEM graduates. Well, there’s no real evidence for that” (Wharton, 2015). This means STEM graduates are no more likely to get a job in their field than students with other degrees. On the other hand, Rogers says in her article that “those graduating with engineering and computer information systems degrees are in higher demand, with 27% of companies looking to hire them, followed by business degree grads at 18%” (Rogers, 2014). This suggests that employers prefer students with these degrees. For example, in Saudi Arabia a lot of companies prefer students who have science, engineering, and computer science degrees to work with them. In this way, students who have science, engineering, and computer science degrees will find a job rather than the students who don’t have these