Michael HornCo-founder and Chairman, Christensen Institute

The College Where Funding Follows Students’ Earnings, Not Enrollment

7 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this segment of the video, the speaker condemns the practice of teaching material that does not align with current market demands, labeling it as a form of fraud. He distinguishes between foundational knowledge that eventually leads to market‑relevant skills and outdated content that fails to track industry trends. The speaker argues that academic freedom does not justify teaching irrelevant material without accountability, emphasizing that the institution’s culture should prioritize relevance and responsibility rather than allowing educators to teach arbitrarily.

Um, if we're teaching somebody that's not market relevant, our culture is that we're, we're a party to fraud. Why are we teaching something that's not market relevant? Um, and market relevant might be that it's foundational to get to something market relevant, but if we're teaching something that's outdated and, and is not tracking with the market, um, that is not about academic freedom in that instance. I, I'm not— I just teach what I want to teach regardless of any accountability is not our culture.