Can colleges still deliver in the age of AI? One Ivy League school is investing $30 million to improve career outcomes

Dartmouth College Cheryl Senter/Bloomberg | Fears that artificial intelligence will upend students' future career plans are reverberating across college campuses . "Higher education needs to do better," said Joseph Catrino, the inaugural director of Dartmouth's Center for Career Design. "We need to do better for our students — we need to step up and help students be prepared." The Ivy League college recently raised $30 million in endowed funds to support internship opportunities . Now students can access up to $6,500 during any term to help finance unpaid or underpaid internships. "This allows the student to explore and engage in a field that they normally wouldn't be able to," Catrino said. Many other colleges and universities are launching similar initiatives to make students more employable amid a rapidly changing labor market. Additional internships, externships and hands-on work, these schools say, could better position their students to land jobs after graduating. Graduates of Baruch College participate in a commencement ceremony at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, June 5, 2017. Bebeto Matthews | AP Last year, the City University of New York kicked off a sweeping effort to improve career outcomes for its 180,000 undergraduates by integrating career-connected advising, paid internships, apprenticeships and collaborations with industry specialists across every academic concentration. …