JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE

The Case for Exposing Every Student to Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Roy C Carriker

Citation: Roy C Carriker,(2017)"The Case for Exposing Every Student to Entrepreneurship," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol. 17, Iss. 1, pp. 21-32

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

With student debt at$1.3 trillion, 41 – 46% of recent US college graduates say they didn’t need a degree for the job they were able to get, implying roughly $550billion of unproductive education investment didn’t prepare them for the realities of earning a living now and in the future. Rapidly changing patterns in the ability to earn an income in the future and their causes are examined. The critical need for competitive productivity in a globalized world is driving workplace technological innovation replacement of human endeavor. A case is made the basic elements of entrepreneurship and the skill set valuable to entrepreneurs should be taught to every student to better enable them to earn a future living in an employment environment vastly different from the past. Today’s students will have to be entrepreneurial in the pursuit of their lives whether or not they ever start something.