By Dr. Joe Johnson | Purpose Over Dreams Let me tell you a story that should make every employer, every university president, and every policymaker lose sleep tonight: We handed 42.8 million Americans  a bill for $1.833 trillion  in student loan debt, and most of them were teenagers who couldn't explain the difference between a subsidized and unsubsidized loan when they signed on the dotted line. We told an entire generation that college was the only path to a good life, handed them a pen,...

By Dr. Joe Johnson | Purpose Over Dreams Let me give you a number that should ruin every university president’s morning coffee: Seventy-five percent of HR leaders say a college degree does not prepare people for their jobs. Not "could use some work." Not "needs a little tweaking." Does not prepare them. Period. That comes from a 2024 study by Hult International Business School and Workplace Intelligence. And it is not an outlier. Cengage Group’s 2025 Employability Report found that nearly...

Let me say what most faculty members whisper behind closed doors but are too afraid to put in writing: Higher education is broken. And the people running it know it. I’m not talking about the students. I’m not talking about the professors who genuinely love to teach. I’m talking about the system ! The outdated, self-serving machine that has confused institutional survival with educational impact. And if we don’t disrupt it right now, artificial intelligence is going to do it for us....