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Article

15 Jun 2014

Author:
Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times (USA)

Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers [USA]

Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University, the company and the university will announce on Monday...The program is open to any of the company’s 135,000 United States employees, provided they work at least 20 hours a week and have the grades and test scores to gain admission to Arizona State.or a barista with at least two years of college credit, the company will pay full tuition; for those with fewer credits it will pay part of the cost, but even for many of them, courses will be free, with government and university aid...Howard D. Schultz, the company’s chairman and chief executive, said...“I believe it will lower attrition, it’ll increase performance, it’ll attract and retain better people.”...In a low-wage service industry, Starbucks has for decades been unusual, doing things such as providing health insurance, even for part-timers, and giving its employees stock options...