Why Aren’t College Grads ‘Job-Ready’? - Commentary

Patrick J. Casey, an assistant professor of philosophy at Holy Family University (PA)

Over the past few months, I have had conversations with colleagues at multiple institutions of higher education who have reported the reluctance of universities to enforce norms—whether penalizing plagiarism and AI-generated work, putting away phones in educational settings, employing appropriate etiquette in communication, or meeting deadlines. About the same time, I started to see reports that more than half of recent college graduates are underemployed. Naturally, I began to wonder if there was some connection between the two.