Starting up my future of higher education seminar this week

Last night I held the first meeting of my Future of Higher Education seminar at Georgetown University. The students were awesome.

Here I’d like to share some of the thinking behind the class design, as well as the syllabus.

The topical goal is to explore the future of higher ed, obviously, which means diving into two domains: the futures field and how the academic ecosystem functions. Each class meeting engages both of those worlds, twining them together to help students forecast. For futures work I have…