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Gallup Poll: Employers Say Recent College Grads Are Not Workforce Ready

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More than half of business leaders say their new employees aren’t workforce ready after college. These findings come from the latest annual Gallup/Lumina Foundation Poll on the American public’s opinion on higher education. The results, collected from two telephone surveys from a Nov. 25 to Dec. 16 of 623 U.S. business leaders and 1,012 American adults, reflect the public’s staunch recognition of a broken university educational system. Additionally, business leaders offer opini...
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