Year On

Year On
Type of site
Education
Available inEnglish
URLhttp://www.yearon.com
CommercialYes
Current statusactive

Year On, formerly UnCollege, is an organization which aims to equip students with the tools for self-directed learning and career building.[1] Its flagship program is a yearlong gap year program involving training in work skills and life skills, volunteer service in a foreign country, and internship or personal project.

UnCollege
Type of site
Education
Available inEnglish
OwnerDale J. Stephens
URLhttp://www.uncollege.org
CommercialYes

Background

UnCollege was founded by Dale J. Stephens in 2011.[2][3][4][5][6] Stephens is a self-described "elementary school dropout", as he was homeschooled with emphasis on real-world experience for the majority of his childhood.[7] He briefly attended Hendrix College. While there, Stephens had a night-long discussion with a friend regarding the disconnect between the theoretical subject matter taught in college and its real world applications.[7] This discussion would become the basis for UnCollege, which Stephens founded in 2011 in San Francisco.[7][8]

In 2010, Stephens also applied for the Thiel Fellowship, a program founded by Peter Thiel which grants fellows US$100,000 to forgo college for two years and focus on their passions.[9][10][11][12] After his initial proposal was rejected, Stephens was encouraged to reapply in pursuit of his work as an educational futurist through UnCollege. His second application succeeded and he was in the first batch of Thiel Fellows.[13][14]

The UnCollege website featured resources, forums, and workshops designed to help students, both in and out of college, with the task of self-directed learning.[15][16][17][18][19][20] The site also hosted The UnCollege Manifesto, a 25-page document written by Stephens that covers subjects like "The value (or lack thereof) of a college degree" and "Twelve steps to self-directed learning."[21] Stephens expanded upon the approach described therein in a book, Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will, which was published in 2013.[22]

In 2013, UnCollege began offering its flagship year-long program. The first iteration of the year-long program included four phases: Launch, in which students learnt life skills, work skills, and how to engage in self-directed learning;[23] Voyage, in which students traveled to a foreign country, for a service learning trip;[24] Internship, in which the students, using work skills acquired at Launch, seek out and work through an internship of their choosing;[25] and Project, in which students completed, from start to finish, a capstone project of their choosing. The inaugural class of students in the year-long program included ten students from four countries.[26] Later iterations of the yearlong program reversed the order of Launch and Voyage, eliminated the Project, and/or allowed students to choose between an Internship and a Project.

Initially, the year-long program was presented as an alternative to university. Students were encouraged to take a pathway, similar to Stephens' own, that avoided university studies.[27] However, Stephens found that this pathway was neither practical nor desirable for most of his students.[28] Subsequently, the year-long program was rebranded as a gap year program, designed for students to take in between high school and university or vocational training, or for university students taking a year-long break from their studies.[28] A semester-long program was subsequently introduced, branded as a gap semester, consisting only of the Voyage and Launch phases of the year-long program.[29]

In 2018, UnCollege rebranded as Year On.[30] The goal of the programs shifted to preparing students for life at university and in the world of work. The year-long program and the semester-long program were retained; additional programs were added.[31]

Programs

Year On currently offers several programs.[31] The year-long program[32] has three phases: Explore, in which students take a service learning trip abroad; Focus, in which students learn life skills and work skills, and receive one-on-one mentorship; and Launch, in which students may take an internship, take an apprenticeship, work on a personal project, and/or apply for college. The semester-long program[33] has students complete portions of the year-long program. The flexible program[34] has students complete portions of the life skills, work skills, and/or self-directed learning curriculum, over a shorter period of time.

Reception

Through his work with UnCollege, Stephens was named as one of Splashlife's 30 Under 30: Social Media Titans.[35] UnCollege has been profiled in world publications like CNN, The New York Times, The Asia Times, ABC, Fast Company, Mashable, NPR, CBS, Inc., TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post.[36][9][10][14][15][37][38][39][40][41][42]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Year On"..
  2. ^ "UnCollege".
  3. ^ The Chronicle of Higher Education Disgruntled College Student Starts ‘UnCollege’ to Challenge System By Jeff Young, February 9, 2011
  4. ^ College is a waste of time By Dale Stephens, Special to CNN June 3, 2011 "a social movement empowering individuals to take their education beyond the classroom"
  5. ^ UnCollege: Home-Schooling For College Students Huffington Post, 02/10/11
  6. ^ Students develop new UnCollege curriculum Archived 2011-04-12 at the Wayback Machine The Dartmouth Monday, February 28, 2011
  7. ^ a b c Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel (2011-06-14). Peter Thiel Is Giving This Man $100,000 To Disrupt College. Business Insider, 14 June 2011.
  8. ^ Schawbel, Dan (March 5, 2013) [March 5, 2013]. "Dale Stephens: Ditch College And Create Your Own Educational Experience". Forbes. Archived from the original on December 7, 2023. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  9. ^ a b Markowitz, Eric (September 2011). "Meet the College Dropouts". Inc.
  10. ^ a b Gee, Robyn (2011-06-03). "Creator Of UnCollege Gets 100K From Thiel Foundation". Huffington Post.
  11. ^ Stephens, Dale (2011-06-03). "College is a waste of time". CNN.
  12. ^ Stephens, Dale (2011-07-18). "Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens Drops Out (Of College), Moves In (To Silicon Valley), And Starts Up (Talent-Scouting RadMatter)". Fast Company.
  13. ^ Smith, Daniel (2011-05-01). "The University Has No Clothes". New York.
  14. ^ a b Fox, Zoe (2011-08-26). "Diploma or Dropout: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma". Mashable.
  15. ^ a b "How Students Can Take Charge of Their Education". The New York Times. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2012.
  16. ^ "The 'UnCollege': are walled campuses obsolete?". Smart Planet. May 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-06-13.
  17. ^ "Beyond The Hill : Getting Schooled: UnCollege attracts students with higher education alternative". Daily Orange. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  18. ^ "College is a waste of time".
  19. ^ "Students develop new UnCollege curriculum". The Dartmouth. Archived from the original on April 12, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  20. ^ "UnCollege". Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  21. ^ The UnCollege Manifesto. UnCollege.
  22. ^ NPR Staff. ""Skipping Out On College And 'Hacking Your Education'"". NPR.
  23. ^ ""Launch"". UnCollege.
  24. ^ ""Voyage"". UnCollege.
  25. ^ ""Internship"". UnCollege.
  26. ^ ""Introducing Our Inaugural Gap Year Fellows!"". UnCollege.
  27. ^ Jean Fan. ""Don't Try to "Beat" the School System—Transcend It"". UnCollege Blog.
  28. ^ a b Carrie Kirby (2 December 2016). "From UnCollege to Less College". Bloomberg.
  29. ^ ""Gap Semester"". UnCollege.
  30. ^ Charlie Taibi. ""Announcing Our Rebrand to Year On"". Year On Blog.
  31. ^ a b ""Program Overview"". Year On.
  32. ^ ""Year Experience"". Year On.
  33. ^ ""Semester Experience"". Year On.
  34. ^ ""Flexible Experience"". Year On.
  35. ^ "30 under 30: Social Media Titans". Splashlife. May 2012. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
  36. ^ Bennett, William J. (April 18, 2012). "Are colleges afraid of Peter Thiel?". CNN.
  37. ^ Louie, David (May 25, 2011). "Foundation gives $100K to teenage entrepreneurs". ABC.
  38. ^ Stephens, Dale (April 13, 2011). "Living the Knowledge Life: A Thiel Fellowship Finalist's Response". TechCrunch.
  39. ^ Hutchinson, Martin (April 12, 2012). "College clear-out on its way". AsiaTimes. Archived from the original on April 11, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  40. ^ Stephens, Dale (September 14, 2011). "What Has Being A Thiel Fellow Given Me? Credibility". Fast Company.
  41. ^ "Preparing Americans for the 21st Century Workplace". 26 October 2024.
  42. ^ KONRATH, ANDREAS (February 22, 2017). "Desrupting College". Newsweek.

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