{"id":78531,"date":"2020-09-30T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-college-for-all-only-deepens-inequality\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T23:10:10","slug":"how-college-for-all-only-deepens-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-college-for-all-only-deepens-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"#How \u2018college for all\u2019 only deepens inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How \u2018college for all\u2019 only deepens inequality<\/strong>”
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\n Wells Fargo\u2019s CEO recently faced outrage for a memo noting \u201cthe unfortunate \u00adreality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to \u00adrecruit from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than pseudo-righteous indignation, maybe it\u2019s time to confront uncomfortable facts about both college preparedness and the way our society bases economic opportunity on college success.<\/p>\n

According to critical race theory, our intellectual class\u2019 obsession du jour, any hiring disparity reflects structural racism, and companies like Wells Fargo simply \u201caren\u2019t trying hard enough\u201d to find black candidates. In reality, there are wide racial gaps even before college. The average black SAT taker trails the overall average by more than 100 points, reflecting a pattern that shapes app<\/a>licant pools in all college-dependent jobs.<\/p>\n

No serious person can ignore these disparities. Improving college preparation is crucial.<\/p>\n

But better college preparation isn\u2019t the only solution. We must do more to create opportunity for those less inclined to play the college game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

College is good at filtering for one form of talent. A society that makes college the primary path to opportunity and status will favor one type of person. People with other strengths and learning styles will be left behind. Even those who can succeed at college often suppress greater talents to force themselves into this mold \u2014 a recipe for an unfulfilling life.<\/p>\n

Rather than more diversity programs to identify \u201ccollege-caliber\u201d people whom elite colleges somehow missed, we need to bolster a range of career tracks that cultivate and reward a range of talents.<\/p>\n

These career tracks need not cap out at a skilled-tradesman level (as attractive as such careers can be). Countless people who skipped college have built thriving businesses. Paul Graham, the founder of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, has pointed out that college doesn\u2019t just fail to teach key business skills, it actively suppresses them by focusing on artificial tests rather than real-world results.<\/p>\n

Peter Thiel famously paid young people $100,000 to skip college and start companies; one of these recently announced it would go public at a $3.4 billion valuation. In my own real-estate company, many people without typical business backgrounds thrived and built successful careers in our less-structured environment.<\/p>\n

Yet today, the jobs and networks that build business skills and social<\/a> capital favor elite college and MBA credentials. They prioritize the same skills colleges do, and they reward the type of person who plays the college game well.<\/p>\n

While Wells Fargo could try to develop programs to find leaders with different backgrounds, this may accomplish little. Organizations like Wells Fargo demand and reward the same analytical skills and rule-following temperament that colleges filter for. Our real problem is the degree to which economic opportunity has \u00adbecome concentrated in such companies.<\/p>\n

In contrast, many smaller companies and less-white-collar industries reward different traits and offer different career tracks. Different types of people \u2014 many of whom might never play the college game well \u2014 can thrive in such environments.<\/p>\n

Yet by pushing young people to a college-and-corporate track, we saddle them with crushing debt, squeeze them into molds that often leave them unhappy and suck talent from non-favored industries and from Middle America. Most important, we leave many people behind by reinforcing a status \u00adhierarchy that stigmatizes those who don\u2019t play this game.<\/p>\n

We would do better to recognize that the higher-education\/big-business path is only one of many ways people can succeed. Instead of normalizing the college track, subsidizing universities and favoring large, white-collar companies with regulation \u2014 and then decrying the lack of diversity at the top of this world \u2014 we should encourage a diverse range of paths. This includes promoting everything from apprenticeships, to small-business capital, to the growth of \u201creal-world\u201d industries, to the recognition that true expertise often has little to do with credentials.<\/p>\n

The race-theory-focused view of diversity misses this point. Rather than imposing racial group-based diversity on every company, we need an economy that offers a truly diverse set of career paths to match the diversity of individual strengths and interests. Such a solution doesn\u2019t just help \u201cdisadvantaged\u201d racial and economic groups \u2014 it helps every American thrive.<\/p>\n

Nate Fischer is an investor and entrepreneur. Twitter: @NateAFischer<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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