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College and Business Will Never Be the Same: Philadelphia University Integrates Design, Engineering and Commerce

One of the problems in business today is that college graduates trained in a single professional discipline (i.e. design, engineering or business) end up graduating as domain experts but with little experience working across multiple disciplines.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
–Attributed to Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and B.F. Skinner

There are 4633 accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States. This weekend I had dinner with one of them–a friend who’s now the president of Philadelphia University. He’s working hard to reinvent the school into a model for 21st century professional education.

Steve Blank

Full Story: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/15/college-and-business-will-never-be-the-same-philadelphia-university-integrates-design-engineering-and-commerce/?single_page=true

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