PreparedU: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success

It will change the way you think about what excellence in education means in today's business environment as you develop strategies that will move our children, students, and future employees forward in a rapidly changing and very challenging world. Today's businesses demand a new kind of hybrid graduate, possessed of both hard and soft skills, with the courage to take risks, the creativity to innovate, and the savvy to excel in a turbulent competitive climate. This book is a valuable resource for participants in every learning community: our homes, schools, and businesses. Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley University, explains why today's practices in higher education are inadequate preparation for our rapidly evolving innovation economy.  Instead, she passionate

Today's businesses need and demand a new kind of "hybrid" graduate, possessed of both hard and soft skills, with the courage to take risks, the creativity to innovate, and the savvy to excel in a turbulent competitive climate. . Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley University, begins by explaining why our current practices in higher education are inadequate preparation for our rapidly evolving innovation economy. PreparedU describes how hybrid learning takes place in four critical venues: classroom, cohort, community, and corporation. Most importantly, this text highlights the importance of helping students develop a cooperative learning style that will easily translate to any work environment. It will change the way you think about what excelle

GLORIA CORDES LARSON, ESQ., was elected to the presidency of Bentley University after a prestigious career as an attorney, public policy expert, and business leader. . Before joining Bentley, Gloria was co-chair of the Government Strategies Group at Foley Hoag LLP. She led a business advisory cabin