BostonInno: New England Named Worst in the Nation for Retaining College Grads
Lauren Landry 06/04/2013 Michael Lake, executive director of Northeastern’s World Class Cities Partnership, recently debuted data revealing the real reason students leave Boston, and it had nothing to do with the high price of housing, inclimate weather or the never-on-time MBTA. The problem proved to be jobs, and a new study released by the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston only reiterated his point. The study found, in terms of college graduate retention, New England is last in the nation,...
read moreBoston.com As commencement season wraps up, study says half of college grads are expected to leave Boston
By Katherine Landergan, Town Correspondent As commencement season draws to a close, 1 out of every 2 local graduates are expected to immediately move out of Boston, according to a report by Northeastern University. The report, which was released this spring by the World Class Cities Partnership out of Northeastern University, found that recent grads from Boston colleges and universities tend to move elsewhere for job opportunities. Boston loses recent graduates to New York City, San Francisco, or Washington DC. The researchers didn’t...
read moreMetro: Leaders in Boston and Cambridge want to keep talent from leaving the cities
By Morgan Rousseau March 27, 2013 It’s no secret that Boston and Cambridge are home to some of the world’s most elite colleges and universities, an attribute that attracts thousands of students each year. Sounds great, but there’s a downside – half of them earn their degree, then exit to the left. That’s why a coalition of city and educational leaders will hold a Mass Talent Retention public hearing Thursday on how to convince local talent to stay put after graduation. “We want to make sure that we keep the young, vibrant talent...
read moreGlobal Business Hub: The real reasons young people leave Massachusetts
Posted by Chad O’Connor April 1, 2013 11:00 AM Article by Mike Lake and Dan Spiess It is time to change the discourse around talent retention in Greater Boston. Last Thursday’s second-ever joint city council hearing, hosted by Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson and Cambridge City Councillor Leland Cheung, in partnership with the World Class Cities Partnership (WCCP), highlighted the concern of talent loss to many in the Boston area. The discourse on this topic is not new to local leaders and the same lamentations about why...
read moreBostInno: The Real Reason Students Leave Boston Isn’t Housing, Weather, Bars or the T
March 29th, 2013 by Walter Frick You’ve heard all the reasons Boston can’t retain its talented students after they graduate: housing costs too much, the weather is terrible, the bars don’t stay open long enough and neither does the T. All of these things are important, but it turns out that none of them are the primary reason that students leave Boston, at least not right after graduation. The single most important variable for keeping students in Boston after graduation is jobs, according to Michael Lake, executive director of the...
read moreGoverning: Why Isn’t the U.S. Better at Public-Private Partnerships?
Few states have offices dedicated to examining increasingly popular P3 deals. Experts say it’s time to copy Canada and change that. BY: Ryan Holeywell | February 2013 Officials in British Columbia have encountered a unique problem in recent years that most jurisdictions would be thrilled to have: Infrastructure projects are being completed not just on time, but early. Way too early. Builders have been finishing hospitals, for example, so far ahead of schedule that they haven’t even been allocated operating funds. “We had to limit how...
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