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Book SynopsisEssential for administrators and trustees who are responsible for recruitment, admissions, student support, tenure practices, facilities construction, and strategic planning, this book is a practical guide for navigating coming enrollment challenges.
Trade ReviewOver the past two weeks I've read a book about the future of American higher ed, and want to recommend it very highly. It might be the most important book on the subject published this year.
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Bryan Alexander blogThis “birth dearth” has prompted Nathan Grawe, Professor of Economics at Carleton College, to analyze the dynamics of demographic shifts and consider how schools might prepare for a significant decrease in demand. Grawe meticulously presents his findings in his insightful and practical new book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education.
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Degree or Not DegreeDemographics and the Demand for Higher Education, by Nathan Grawe, is both terrifying and worth reading if you work in, or care about, higher education. I actually gasped several times, which isn't my usual response to monographs about demographics.
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Inside Higher EdGrawe's book is timely, well-researched, and thought-provoking. Especially college or university presidents would be well-served to give it a thorough reading, and this reviewer certainly be sharing the book with his.
—Michael T. Catalano, Dakota Wesleyan University,
NumeracyThe leading spokesperson of this emergent discourse of demographic crisis is the economist Nathan D. Grawe, whose book
Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education sent a shockwave through higher education's administrative class.
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Los Angeles Review of BooksThe most influential academic book of the past few years.
—Joshua Kim,
Inside Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Demographic Headwinds for Higher Education
2. Demographics as Destiny?
3. The Higher Education Demand Index
4. Changing Contours of Population and Aggregate Higher Education Demand
5. Demand for Two-Year Programs
6. Demand for Four-Year Institutions
7. Is Anyone Paying for All of This?
8. Coping with Change
9. Anticipated Higher Education Attendance
10. The Potential for Policy to Affect Attendance Rates
11. Looking beyond 2030
Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index
