The great upheaval : higher education's past, present, and uncertain future / Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt.

"In forecasting the future of higher education in the United States, the authors conduct a 360-degree survey that looks backward, forward, and sideways to explore how other business sectors have weathered seismic transformations"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Levine, Arthur (Author)
Van Pelt, Scott, 1988- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Education, Higher > United States > History.
Educational change > United States.
Education, Higher.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Educational change.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvii, 309 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Where you look determines what you see
  • Looking backward
  • The industrial revolution and the transformation of America
  • Criticism, denial, and innovation
  • New models and diffusion
  • Standardization, consolidation, and scaling
  • Transformation
  • Looking forward
  • A demographic sea change
  • An emerging knowledge economy
  • A technological revolution
  • Adaptation
  • Looking sideways
  • The music industry
  • The film industry
  • The newspaper industry
  • Disruption
  • Looking at the panorama
  • What will change?
  • How and when will change occur?
  • What should higher education and policy makers do?