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I wonder why big companies like IBM don't just acquire large private universities and offer a traditional 4 year co-op experience. They could subsidize educati
by creaghpatr 10y ago
I wonder why big companies like IBM don't just acquire large private universities and offer a traditional 4 year co-op experience.
They could subsidize education and 'guarantee' a job at IBM upon graduation. And shift the curriculum as needed for the company, provided they give a typical core education that you would find at any typical 4 yr college.
Heck if they get a D1 football school they can pump a bunch of money into it and leverage the exposure for advertising.
- wcummings 10y agoWhy would they when they can partner with unis like Marist?
- emodendroket 10y agoWhy should they? Getting it for free is a pretty sweet deal.
- creaghpatr 10y agoColleges make a lot of money (the good ones, anyway). And provide a unique source of brand equity.
- emodendroket 10y agoThere are lots of markets that IBM could presumably get into and make money but it's not clear they're all good ideas.
- vanadium 10y agoI did some mentorship at a P-TECH/STEM style academy here in Chicago a few years back when the idea was young. (http://www.goodestemacademy.org/ http://www.goodestemacademy.org/) About 75-85% of the mentors were in fact from IBM, and the rest of us were from marketing agencies. IBM is very, very highly represented at many of these sites and have enormous skin in the game to propagate the model further. See here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/on_innovation/2017/04/ibm_prep_chicagos_goode_stem_partners_for_associate_degrees_and_it_careers.html http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/on_innovation/2017/04/ibm_pre... Now that IBM has a few years under their belt supporting said academies, and some analytics to determine whether it's benefiting them or not, they're pushing it to the next level.