Interesting! I’ve been working on a much lighter thing that’s like the college EA Fellowship program but for working adults, and have been debating whether it should be an ongoing once per week kind of thing or an intense weekend retreat (i.e. the CFAR model). EA Academy (or REACH Academy since we’d be running it out of the Berkeley REACH) came up as a potential name during brainstorming (haven’t landed on a definite name yet, will likely depend on what the program ends up looking like).
I’ve been an instructor at a coding bootcamp in the past and am generally interested in non-traditional education. I like the thought of your proposal, but see some potential flaws, many of which have already been laid out by Aaron. I’d be interested in chatting, though!
This seems like good advice. However, I’d say that if your goal is to “advance your EA career”, maybe you should do some goal factoring—what do you want out of an EA career? If what you want is to do as much good as possible, it’s totally possible that your comparative advantage doesn’t look like a standard EA career path.
If what you want is EA street cred, maybe you should just get better at talking about what you’re doing (which might require an internal shift in how you think about what you’re doing).
If you are actually doing something that’s not that great and won’t get you better positioned to do more good later, of course consider changing paths :)