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LAOP 2022 · No. 04
Robert Johnson
President, Western New England University (at the time of recording)
We cannot separate the future of work and how we teach young people to learn, unlearn, and relearn as a steady state.
Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson reminded us that his university was founded in 1919, in the middle of a pandemic, and that hard times have always given birth to new institutions. He traced how fast change now arrives: decades to adopt electricity, 13 years for the smartphone. His message to higher education was blunt. Change or go the way of Blockbuster. Students must learn, unlearn and relearn, and a president leading the way he did three years ago is already obsolete.
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