What’s Happening in Rural America?

Part 2: In this blog, we explore what education institutions, parents, counselors, non-profit organizations, employees, individuals and governments can do to help shape the future of work.

Part 1: This post in our Future of Work Series illuminates how Automation, AI, & Robotics impact talent shortages AND how the business community can prepare as well as shape the future of work.

By now, most of you have read the news about the record number of job openings the US has as of June 2017. Over 6 million positions are available according the US Department of Labor (USDL).

Most people agree that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will transform modern life by replacing humans in many jobs. And that raises an interesting question: when will artificial intelligence exceed human performance? More specifically, when will a machine do your job better than you? A recent survey of 1643 AI experts conducted by Oxford University shed more light on this important topic. The survey results predict AI will outperform humans in many activities in the next ten years,

Meet seventeen-year-old Indrani Das. She just won $250,000. Now, I know what you may be thinking, but this was not a scholarship. The money was not granted to Das because she wrote a beautifully tragic essay quantifying the number of personal hardships she had overcome. Nor was it because her parent's socioeconomic background was below the poverty line. No. Das earned this money - because she is a rebel. As an Indian-American from Oradell, New Jersey, she was advised

If STEM is a perennial education buzzword, then the the deficit of qualified workers in STEM fields and the even greater deficit of women, minorities and low-income students represented, in the classroom and later in these booming industries, is the clarion call of STEM proponents. There have been numerous reports and think pieces to illustrate what the United States needs to do to improve on its rankings. According to a study conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

Greetings!​​ I’ve met so many people in the course of my career — friends, colleagues and art lovers, who have come to my studio and gallery shows. Some of these connections have deepened. Others were brief. Others still have yet to be made!    But what if these relationships could be less disparate and instead could be a constellation, a community? This letter is my first step toward making that real. I want to keep you in the loop about the exciting things I’m creating. I’m not just talking