Enabling and Shaping Career-Related Outcomes in the U.S. Higher Education Ecosystem:
Abstract
Today’s U.S. higher education ecosystem undertakes expenditures reflecting a greater focus on end-user employability, employment and desired career-related outcomes. Taking a critical demand and supply perspective, regarding the outcome dynamics of stakeholders’ behavioral inputs and content provision, their critical roles in provision are brought here into sharp relief. The paper attempts to tease out and highlight some of the key contributors’ inputs and outputs to societal desired outcomes, as means to a desired “Mega” societal outcomes, such as income and gender inequality reduction. It concludes with insights into evolving technology developments, and recommendation for services providers and end-users alike.