This week I have a lot of topics in the hopper: COP-26, the new COVID variant (Omicron), an update on an educational game I’ve been developing. But for now I want to share a single story about a far larger topic. …
The past week has been a blur. Meetings, international presentations, two seminars with great students, a fine Future Trends Forum session, more family health problems, more planning the next book release, a stack of projects in various stages of realization, and meanwhile COP-26 staggers around with the human race’s future…
For years I’ve been projecting and observing a decline in American higher education. Reality keeps giving examples of those projections becoming observable data. Today’s case in point is a pair of state university systems, one in Pennsylvania, the other in New York.
First, enrollment in the fourteen-campus Pennsylvania State System…
Posted on October 29, 2021 by Bryan Alexander
How might the climate crisis unfold? What should academia do about it?
One year ago our online book club read Kim Stanley Robinson‘s recent novel about one way the next few decades could play out, The Ministry for the Future (2020). I…
(second of two posts; here’s the first one)
The enrollment decline in American colleges and universities continued this fall semester, according to just-released data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. This is very important for higher education in this nation.
The big picture: student numbers declined in nearly every…
(First of two posts)
The number of students taking classes in American colleges and universities dropped last year, according to recently release US Census data. This is an important bit of news, given how crucial enrollment is for tuition-dependent campuses — i.e., most of them.
Higher ed wasn’t the main…
What is neonationalism, and what does it mean for colleges and universities around the world?
Last week the Future Trends Forum hosted University of California-Berkeley research professor John Aubrey Douglass to discuss. He’s the editor of Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats and the Future of Higher Education, as well as…
It looks like the Biden administration is taking an interest in how colleges and universities respond to climate change. At least that’s a conclusion we can draw from this University World News account of a recent speech by John Kerry, the current and first American Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
This week I tried out a new exercise in one of my seminars, and wanted to share it with you all.
The class is a graduate seminar on technology, innovation, and design in Georgetown’s great LDT program. …
