The Atlantic’s May 2015 cover story goes inside the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, in which the company provides financial and student counseling support to its employees to earn a bachelor’s degree through online courses at Arizona State University, a partnership created by Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schulz and ASU president Michael Crow.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/05/the-upwardly-mobile-barista/389513/
Ripley, Amanda. (2015, May). The Upwardly Mobile Barista. The Atlantic.