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Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU)

 system. It wants to see what job skills employers want to see in job candidates and how it can work (or "collaborate" as the new buzzword goes) with employers.

 sociology professor Monte Bute was sitting in the audience of the listening session I attended in Minneapolis. About a quarter of the way through he began raising his hand repeatedly to make a comment.

concerning his belief that no true jobs-skills mismatch exists -- as well as a conversation we'd had -- I knew what he was going to say.)

When he finally got the microphone toward the end of the session, here's what happened:

To get the tone of the address -- a sermon? a harangue? -- you can listen to 

(There's a bit of a glitch, but you can get around it. Click on the link above and then click on the second blue 

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Last week MPR aired my radio story on the statewide survey by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system. It wants to see what job skills employers want to see in job candidates and how it can work (or “collaborate” as the new buzzword goes) with employers. Metropolitan State University sociology professor Monte Bute…

What a Metropolitan State prof told a MnSCU listening session

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