Generation Z finds the upside to growing up amid total disruption
MEMBERS OF THE INAUGURAL CLASS of MissionU are pretending to be newborn kittens, laughing and rolling around on the floor of an airy industrial loft in San Francisco. The group of about 30 students just finished a hackathon, and they are now in the midst of an improv workshop—all part of a yearlong program designed to turn them into highly employable workers. Among them is Eric Dew, a 20-year-old who spent two years studying computer programming in South Dakota. “I just didn’t feel like I got even near the value I had paid for,” he says of his associate’s degree. Dew will pay no upfront tuition to MissionU as he is trained to
