Podcast appearances and mentions of William B Bonvillian

Subscribe to The Realignment to access our exclusive Q&A episodes and support the show: https://realignment.supercast.com/American Affairs: America's Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix ItREALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comFoundation for American Innovation: https://www.thefai.org/posts/lincoln-becomes-faiDavid Adler and William B. Bonvillian, authors of America's Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It, published in American Affairs, join The Realignment. Marshall, David, and William discuss how the U.S. lost its leadership in global manufacturing, the impact of federal legislation like the CHIPS Act, and why the key to a successful industrial policy effort lies in redesigning the country's innovation system.

There's a learning problem in America's workforce. Opportunities for workers to develop skills that can lead them down successful career paths are scarce, and often ineffective. 83 cents of every dollar goes towards training for people who already have received some form of higher education, and even then, 59% of workers claim they had no proper training, and simply acquired skills "on the job." With massive turnover rates and somehow so-called "talent shortages," the current playbook companies are using needs to be shaken up, and that's what today's guest has set out to do. William B. Bonvillian is a lecturer at MIT in the Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments, as well as Senior Director of Special Projects, at MIT's Office of Digital Learning. He also served for seventeen years as a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Senate. His legislative efforts included science and technology policy, helping create the Department of Homeland Security, and legislation regarding Intelligence Reform, climate change, and national defense and life science R&D. He's also the co-author of Workforce Education: A New Roadmap alongside our previous Bring It In guest, Sanjay Sarma. In the book, William dives into the disconnect between the public, private, and education systems that's led to many of the struggles facing our workforce, and what steps we can take at the legislative, educational, and business levels to fix it. In today's episode of the podcast we got to take a deep dive into William's strategies and hopes for the future of work. This is another one you're not going to want to miss, so with that…let's bring it in!

There is a deep disconnect between the U.S. education system and the workplace. How can policymakers bridge the gap and create clear pathways to good jobs? How do technical schools, community colleges, employers, governments, and universities fit together as pieces of the workforce education puzzle—and how can new education technologies help deliver the training workers need? Rob and Jackie discuss the challenges, opportunities, and policy solutions with Professor Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian of MIT, authors of the new book Workforce Education: A New Roadmap.Mentioned:William B. Bonvillian and Sanjay E. Sarma, Workforce Education: A New Roadmap (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, February 2021).Joe Kennedy, Daniel Castro, Robert D. Atkinson, “Why It’s Time to Disrupt Higher Education by Separating Learning From Credentialing” (ITIF, August 2016).Related:Robert D. Atkinson, “How to Reform Worker-Training and Adjustment Policies for an Era of Technological Change” (ITIF, February 2018).

https://www.alainguillot.com/william-bonvillian/ William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Workforce Education: A New Roadmap

In this episode, I speak with Bill Bonvillian & Sanjay Sarma about their work "Applying New Education Technologies to Meet Workforce Education Needs." For more information about their work, check out the resources below: William B. Bonvillian and Sanjay E. Sarma, Workforce Education, A New Roadmap (MIT Press, upcoming Jan, 2021) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/workforce-education Sanjay Sarma and William B. Bonvillian, Applying New Education Technologies to Meet Workforce Education Needs (MIT Work of the Future research brief October 2020) - https://workofthefuture.mit.edu/research-post/applying-new-education-technologies-to-meet-workforce-education-needs/ William B. Bonvillian, Sanjay E. Sarma, Meghan Perdue, Jenna Myers, Workforce Education Project Preliminary Report (MIT Open Learning April 2020) - https://openlearning.mit.edu/mit-open-learning-workforce-education-project