Nice! I’m particularly excited by the emphasis on support with choosing degree courses. I think this is important and really underprovided in general.
Have you thought about framing the programme as about helping people who want to have a positive impact with their work rather than about helping young EAs? I’m a little worried about community effects if “joining EA” comes to be perceived as a way to get generic boosts to one’s career (and that people who join in circumstances where they didn’t really let themselves think about why they might not want to will be worse long-term contributors than if they had space to think clearly about it). But maybe I’m missing some advantages of framing in terms of EAs.
To update, the EA terminology was actually becoming problematic already for referrals for students engaged with outreach orgs, so I’ve updated the language both within the post and related materials to be more inclusive—many thanks for your insights on this Owen!
Thanks Owen! And thank you for raising this, it’s been something I’ve been thinking on and I agree a broader ‘positive impact’ framing could be better on a number of levels, and likely something I’d be looking to do if I scale to a larger project. My reasoning currently is more simply for practicalities for a small scale project (just me & my spare time!) with recruiting & screening students more broadly being less operationally feasible at this point.
Nice! I’m particularly excited by the emphasis on support with choosing degree courses. I think this is important and really underprovided in general.
Have you thought about framing the programme as about helping people who want to have a positive impact with their work rather than about helping young EAs? I’m a little worried about community effects if “joining EA” comes to be perceived as a way to get generic boosts to one’s career (and that people who join in circumstances where they didn’t really let themselves think about why they might not want to will be worse long-term contributors than if they had space to think clearly about it). But maybe I’m missing some advantages of framing in terms of EAs.
To update, the EA terminology was actually becoming problematic already for referrals for students engaged with outreach orgs, so I’ve updated the language both within the post and related materials to be more inclusive—many thanks for your insights on this Owen!
Thanks Owen! And thank you for raising this, it’s been something I’ve been thinking on and I agree a broader ‘positive impact’ framing could be better on a number of levels, and likely something I’d be looking to do if I scale to a larger project. My reasoning currently is more simply for practicalities for a small scale project (just me & my spare time!) with recruiting & screening students more broadly being less operationally feasible at this point.