What you’re teaching is just as important as how you’re teaching it.” “Universities are slow to change,” he says. When he considers what colleges are teaching the people he hopes to hire someday, he isn’t optimistic. Most don’t have computer science degrees.
He has 15 employees, two overseas contractors and a New York-based apprentice. Saunders himself is part of this new arena: He runs a Washington startup he launched three years ago to advise companies on Web and mobile apps and modules.
Now, at 50, Saunders is mentoring students who will be hired into jobs that didn’t exist when he entered college 32 years ago: app coding. Aaron Saunders of Washington startup Clearly Innovative: Universities “need to rethink education.” (Andre Chung/For The Washington Post)Īaron Saunders, chief executive of Clearly Innovative, took a traditional route to a tech career: He earned a computer science degree at Ohio Wesleyan, studied marketing and information technology en route to an MBA from NYU, then hopped through jobs as an application architect for Lotus Development, a designer of Web strategy for Time Warner Cable, and a manager for the redesign of an e-commerce site.
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