Welcome to the Future of Education: Charlottesville, a show where we consider what our education system should look like in 20 years.   I’m your host Lee Elberson and I ask you to join me on a journey to the future as experts from the Charlottesville Community explore our education system through a variety of different lenses.  These topics are specific to Charlottesville but likely have wide-reaching implications.

Intro Music: Yoffee, J. (2020). Will To Live [Single]

References:

• College Scholarship Statistics


• Percent of Students Receiving Scholarships


• Total Tuition Spent in 2018 (Nat. Center for Ed. Stats.)


• Is College Worth It?


• Americans' Perceptions of Success in the U.S.

Some questions covered:

• In the past year we’ve seen lots of criticism about Zoom schooling.  However, there are many benefits supplied to us by technology.  Can you speak to some of the technological benefits you’ve seen implemented at community colleges and other education institutions?


• You wrote an interesting op ed a few years ago titled Is College Worth It where you mention some of the benefits of attending college but also the cost.  Can you take me through the mental calculus of what it takes for families to make that decision in today’s financial climate?


• How do we educate students earlier about career choices?


• What should the compensation structure look like for educators?


• Will we always have degrees granted from exactly one institution or will we start to have an increase in multidisciplinary studies and even multi-institutional coordination?