Introduction: Fundamental Change Is Coming Quickly to Higher Ed / Goldie Blumenstyk -- Unpleasant Enrollment Arithmetic / Nathan D. Grawe -- The March of Online Learning / Michael B. Horn -- Recentering Higher Education on Student Learning / Steven Mintz -- To Produce Free Citizens, Colleges Must Save the Humanities / Jennifer A. Frey -- The Future of Doctoral Study in the Humanities / Len Gutkin -- Scientific Research Needs a Radical Restructuring / Beryl Lieff Benderly and Hal Salzman -- The Industrialization of Knowledge Production / Leif Weatherby -- AI Will Play a Surveillance Role in Higher Ed. That May Be a Good Thing / Hollis Robbins -- The Future of Community Colleges / Sunita V. Cook -- The 'Phygital' Future: What Campuses Will Look Like / Thomas Fisher
"Higher education in the United States has reached a crossroads. Colleges buffeted by economic changes, political pressures, and will their decisions shape not only their own institutions but the entire higher-education ecosystem? What will it look like in 2035? The analyses in the following pages offer deeply informed hypotheses -- about the nature and scope of research and teaching, the makeup of students and the ways they will be taught, the ways institutions will be led, and what campuses will look like. Some visions are optimistic. Others warn that urgent steps must be taken if higher education is to live up to its promise. Not everyone agrees about what that promise entails. Should colleges be more focused on preparing tomorrow's work force or on acting as a bulwark of democracy? Must they choose? No matter the answer, the consensus is that business as usual is not an option. We hope this collection will spark conversation, prompt fruitful debate, and fuel innovation at your institution."--Page 3
