The Great Skills Gap

Jason Wingard is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Human Capital Management at Columbia University School of Professional Studies. He is the former Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs and Vice Dean of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Learning to Succeed: Reinventing Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change, and co-author of Learning for Life: How Continuous Education Will Keep Us Competitive in the Global Knowledge Economy (both with AMACOM, 2015).Christine Farrugia is Director of Research Initiatives at Columbia University School of Professional Studies.

Part I Introduction

 —Neil Irwin

1. Equipping a New Generation with the Skills Needed in the Automation Age

 —Susan Lund, Bryan Hancock

2. The Role of Citizen Developers in Developing Technological Literacy

 —Lance Braunstein

3. The Future of Work: Four Difficult Questions I Need to Ask Myself as an Employer

 —Matthew Pittinsky

4. Why Geography is So Important

 —Michael L. Ulica

5. Enabling a High-Performing, Human-Centered Organization in Pfizer's Upjohn Division

 —Amrit Ray, Lu Hong, Trish White

6. How the Future of Work Impacts the Workforce of Technical Organizations

 —Gregory L. Robinson

7. Corporate Learning and Development Has a Vital Role to Play in the Robotics Revolution—Is It Ready?

 —Uli Heitzlhofer

Part II Introduction

 —Joseph Wiliams

8. Supporting Unlearning to Enable Upskilling

 —Chris Dede

9. Higher Education's Changing Faces: Serving STEM Learners for a Lifetime

 —Yakut Gazi, Nelson Baker

10. The Future of Business Education: New Economies of Automation, Certification, and Scale

 —Anne Trumbore

11. "Back to the Future": Fragile Workers, Higher Education, and the Future Knowledge Economy

 —Earl Lewis, Alford Young Jr., Justin Shaffner, Julie Arbit

12. Evolution of the Liberal Arts

 —Christopher Mayer

13. The Evolution of Liberal Education in a Technology-Mediated, Global Society

 —Kelly J. Otter

14. The Core and the Adult Student

 —David Schejbal

15. Perpetual Learning as Alumni Engagement: Renewing the Social Contract

 —Matthew Rascoff, James DeVaney

Part III Introduction

 —Lauren Weber

16. Harnessing the Power and Potential of Diversity and Inclusion

 —Stephanie Bell-Rose, Anne Ollen

17. Public Education and the Future of Work

 —Ross Wiener

18. Developing Workers for the Workplace: How Businesses and Higher Education Can Alleviate Worker Barriers to Retraining or Upskilling

 —X. Susan Zhu, Alexander Alonso, Johnny C. Taylor

19. Past is Prologue: Apprenticeship and the Future of Work

 —Mary Alice McCarthy

20. Bachelor's-Level Registered Apprenticeship for Engineers: Possibilities and Challenges

 —Daniel Kuehn

21. The Agility Imperative: The Future of Work and Business-Higher Education Partnerships

 —Jason A. Tyszko, Robert G. Sheets

22. Demand for the "Blended Digital Professional"

 —Brian K. Fitzgerald, Isabel Cardenas-Navia, Janet Chen

23. A Coherent Approach to Connect Education and the Future of Work

 —LaVerne Srinivasan, Elise Henson, Farhad Asghar

Conclusion

 —Jason Wingard, Christine Faruggia