Starbucks offers a program that enables employees to receive free online lectures at universities

ByBetsy

Starbucks revealed on June 15th that employees will be able to receive online lectures at Arizona State University for free. This program is available at Starbucks for at least 20 hours per week and is available to 135,000 US employees with results and test scores that you can enroll in Arizona State University.

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http://www.starbucks.com/careers/college-plan

Starbucks, ASU team up for employee education program | ASU News
https://asunews.asu.edu/20140615-starbucks-asu-partnership

Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/starbucks-to-provide-free-college-education-to-thousands-of-workers.html


In order to graduate from the university it is necessary to acquire more than a fixed number of credits, but if you only get half of the credits required for graduation, you can use the program released by Starbucks and Arizona State University, All tuition fees are paid by Starbucks. In addition, even if you have less than half a unit, you can pay a part of your tuition fee.

We are focusing on education within the groupLumina FoundationJamie P. Merisotis, Chairman of Jamie P. Merisotis commented that for many Starbucks employees, online lectures will be the only affordable plan for taking a bachelor's degree.

ByMark

In addition to the program released by Starbucks, there are many tuition payment programs and scholarship programs. However, such things are often insufficient to pay the full tuition fee, new employees of companies are out of scope, and it is normal to have to continue repaying for a long time for many years is. However, the program proposed by Starbucks allows students to study things they like from the day they become employees, even if they retire at any time.

It is Starbucks chairman and chief executive officer who answered in the interview that "the experience value obtained by employees using this program will enhance our brand / reputation / business" Howard Schulz. He commented, "With this program, employee performance will improve and we will be able to attract and hire better people," he also commented and convinced the program will have a great impact on Starbucks As if there were something.

ByRichard Eriksson

Within the service industry of low wage, Starbucks, who has employees who will work for decades, is exactly the same as other service industriesAbnormalityIt is existence. Despite why it is a tough service industry, Starbucks has a lot of veteran employees, Starbucks also provides health insurance for part-time jobs, gives employees stock options, and other companies Because there is a system that does not exist. The stock price of Starbucks is 74.69 dollars (about 7,600 yen) on June 13, 2014, and it has grown to more than 100 times that in 1992 when the stock was released.

Arizona State University, which cooperates with Starbucks to provide online lecture for employees, is the largest in the United StatesOnline degree programIt is considered as one of the universities with 11 thousand students and 40 major courses and one of the most noteworthy things now. Arizona State University and Starbucks seems to expect that thousands of registrants will appear, although it is still unknown how many Starbucks employees will receive this program, and Arizona State University director Michael M. Crow, famous as a director of the long online lecture, reveals that it is preparing the system to withstand sudden access increase.

Normally, the tuition fee for university courses at Arizona State University is 500 dollars (about 51,000 yen) per unit and about 612 million yen in 120 units to obtain a bachelor's degree.

ByMaureen McLaughlin

For Abraham G. Cervantes living with his mother and two brothers in San Pedro, Los Angeles, the Starbucks program seems to have been unwilling to do. Cervantes is a 24 - year - old young man working at Starbucks and working at a music studio. He met classical at a community college (a public two-year college in the United States), practicing favorite songs such as Chopin, Bach, Beethoven etc. at the work as a professor of music by practicing with a house worn piano He seemed to have dreamed of. However, it is very difficult to keep studying while supporting the livelihood of the family, he says that he could not even acquire a unit of a quasi - degree.

Cervantes said it was very difficult to go to school while doing two jobs, so welcome the Starbucks program, commenting, "The new Starbucks program is very helpful for me" doing.

ByMatt Kowal

Tammie R. Lopez's father suddenly lost his job as she was a sophomore in college. Her parents tried to gather money to manage Lopez 's tuition, and finally tried to sell it to the house. Lopez quit "going to the university, quit leaving the university, searching for work, currently living in San Fernando Valais, working as an employee of Starbucks and going to a community college at night. She is studying as much as possible to sign language interpretation, but she seems to also want to learn economics and others.

At that time Starbucks program was announced, Lopez said, "Financial burden ceases to be able to complete the university in a couple of years," and furthermore, "If you are in an emergency or have to go to the city Even if there is something to do, if you bring a PC you will not miss the lecture, "he says of expectations for online lectures.

ByAlexander Smolianitski

According to the Starbucks employee survey, 70% of all employees do not have a degree, and it turns out that there are several people who have never been to the university, dropped out, and a number of people are studying at the university. Mr. Schulz, Chairman, commented that these survey results and Cervantes and Lopez 's circumstances will overlap with their own memories.

ByArtotem