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Book SynopsisFrom the renowned futurist, a look at how current trends will transform American higher education over the next twenty years. 2020 Most Significant Futures Work Award Winner, Association of Professional FuturistsThe outlook for the future of colleges and universities is uncertain. Financial stresses, changing student populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation's colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these evolving trends to better understand higher education's next generation. Alexander first examines current economic, demographic, political, international, and policy developments as they relate to higher education. He also explores internal transformations within postsecondary institutions, including those related to enrollment, access, academic labor, alternative certification, sexual assault, and the changing library, paying particularly close attention to techn
Trade ReviewAn excellent resource for understanding trends in higher eduction and thinking about future scenarios related to these.
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michaelpaulus.orgAcademia Next provides a wealth of resources about current challenges and opportunities, highlights two methods (trend analysis and scenario development) that can be used to prepare colleges and universities for the future, and identifies possible challenges and opportunities they might face in the future.
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Higher Ed ConnectsThose who worry about the future of higher ed—and who among us is without worry?—would do well to put
Academia Next on their reading list. The book provides academic readers with a set of tools from which to construct a set of scenarios, underpinned by trends, about the future of our schools and of our ecosystem. The book is certain to catalyze an informed and energetic conversation about the future of higher ed.
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Inside Higher EdAcademia Next helps us know how we can intervene in the emerging nature of higher education.
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Association of Professional FuturistsEvery day, I am involved in a discussion about one or more issues affecting higher education.
Academia Next does a great job of capturing many of those discussions into one book. If you are an administrator in higher education, I would encourage you to read this well-researched book.
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tubarksblog.comA must read for anyone involved in our educational system.
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Technical CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Trends
Chapter 1. Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
Chapter 2. Catching the University in Midtransformation
Chapter 3. The New Age of Fewer Children and More Inequality
Chapter 4. The Marriage of Carbon and Silicon
Chapter 5. Beyond the Virtual Learning Environment
Chapter 6. Connecting the Dots: Metatrends
Part II. Scenarios
Chapter 7. Peak Higher Education
Chapter 8. Health Care Nation
Chapter 9. Open Education Triumphant
Chapter 10. Renaissance
Chapter 11. Augmented Campus
Chapter 12. Siri, Tutor Me
Chapter 13. Retro Campus
Part III. To the Future and the Present
Chapter 14. Beyond 2035
Chapter 15. Back to the Present
Notes
Index
