College After COVID: How to Get the Best of Both Worlds - Nat Eliason

Step Three: Unbundle Degrees, Create Tracks

Step Two: Unbundle Students from Universities Universities could continue to exist as a combination of a local community and a filtering mechanism. A university is still a great way to find friends or a partner, assuming it continues to filter out people you're unlikely to have as close of a relationship with.

Finally, the mark of a good education would shift from what school you attended to which professors you learned from.

If a professor is bad or redundant, they won't get students, and they'll get fired or quit.

The professors are the main value add of the university anyway, so they should be getting the lion's share of the revenue.

This shifts the power back from the universities to the professors: