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“This is not about replacing degrees—it’s about balancing them with real, demonstrable skills that keep people employable and businesses competitive,” Michelle Froah, global chief marketing and innovation officer at ETS, tells Fortune.
Silicon Valley CEOs have been skeptical about college education for many years. In one of the more extreme cases of this idea, Palantir CEO Peter Thiel has a fellowship that pays students $100,000 to drop out. And most recently, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to throw cold water on the entire higher education system, saying college is no longer needed to land a role in the current market.
