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Book Future Societal Developments and Postsecondary Education

Download or read book Future Societal Developments and Postsecondary Education written by Robert Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Future Societal Developments and Postsecondary Education

Download or read book Future Societal Developments and Postsecondary Education written by Robert Johansen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Long Life Learning

Download or read book Long Life Learning written by Michelle R. Weise and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary guide for the future of learning and work Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet offers readers a fascinating glimpse into a near-future where careers last 100 years, and education lasts a lifetime. The book makes the case that learners of the future are going to repeatedly seek out educational opportunities throughout the course of their working lives — which will no longer have a beginning, middle, and end. Long Life Learning focuses on the disruptive and burgeoning innovations that are laying the foundation for a new learning model that includes clear navigation, wraparound and funding supports, targeted education, and clear connections to more transparent hiring processes. Written by the former chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network’s Institute for the Future of Work, the book examines: How will a dramatically extended lifespan affect our careers? How will more time in the workforce shape our educational demands? Will a four-year degree earned at the start of a 100-year career adequately prepare us for the challenges ahead? Perfect for anyone with an interest in the future of education and Clayton Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation, Long Life Learning provides an invaluable glimpse into a future that many of us have not even begun to imagine.

Book Education  Skills  and Technical Change

Download or read book Education Skills and Technical Change written by Charles R. Hulten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep pace with the evolving demands placed on it, and how can the workforce of tomorrow acquire the skills and competencies that are most in demand? Education, Skills, and Technical Change explores various facets of these questions and provides an overview of educational attainment in the United States and the channels through which labor force skills and education affect GDP growth. Contributors to this volume focus on a range of educational and training institutions and bring new data to bear on how we understand the role of college and vocational education and the size and nature of the skills gap. This work links a range of research areas—such as growth accounting, skill development, higher education, and immigration—and also examines how well students are being prepared for the current and future world of work.

Book Equity Based Career Development and Postsecondary Transitions

Download or read book Equity Based Career Development and Postsecondary Transitions written by Erik M. Hines and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former First Lady, Michelle Obama believes that every individual should have some type of postsecondary education or training beyond high school to achieve economic and personal success (Reach Higher Initiative, Better Make Room, 2019). Educational attainment (e.g., a high school diploma, college degree, or postsecondary training) provides career opportunities for advancement into leadership positions and benefits such as health insurance and retirement (Heckman, 2000). Additionally, an individual with a college degree can make over one million dollars more over a lifetime in salary than someone with a high school diploma (Carnevale, Cheah, & Hanson, 2015). Acquiring a college degree can lead to employment opportunities and is considered an asset in the U.S. economy (Washington, 2010). However, certain populations encounter barriers to attaining an education, particularly a postsecondary education, leading to a disparity in receiving the aforementioned benefits. Some of these populations include African American students, LGBTQ students, and students with disabilities. There is a dearth of information and research on providing guidance on implementation, research, and best practices in equity-based career development, college readiness, and successful postsecondary transitions for minoritized, at risk, or vulnerable populations. The editors of this volume invited authors with research and practice expertise around various student populations in preparing them for college and career readiness as well as postsecondary transitions. This book is the first of its kind to discuss career development and postsecondary transitions from an access and equity perspective. Further, this text serves as a call to action to ensure the United States’ most vulnerable populations has an opportunity to successfully transition into multiple postsecondary options after high school.

Book Resources in Education

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future of Higher Education

Download or read book The Future of Higher Education written by Frank Newman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and virtual institutions, and the influence of technology on learning. This important resource offers college and university leaders and policy makers an analysis of the impact of these forces of change and includes suggestions for creating an effective higher education market as well as a call for a renewed focus on the public purposes of higher education.

Book Report

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  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Education for the Future  Implications for education of prospective changes in society

Download or read book Designing Education for the Future Implications for education of prospective changes in society written by Designing Education for the Future: an Eight-State Project and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Innovation America

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  • Author : National Governors' Association. Center for Best Practices
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book Innovation America written by National Governors' Association. Center for Best Practices and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American postsecondary education is a diverse collection of public and private institutions, ranging from community and technical colleges to comprehensive and research universities. These institutions are an invaluable resource to states and to the nation -- they educate many of the talented people who work in our industries, businesses, and civic sectors, and they are the places where much of the research and development that benefits this country is conducted. While postsecondary education in the United States has already achieved key successes in the innovation economy, the public postsecondary education system overall risks falling behind its counterparts in many other nations around the world -- places where there have been massive efforts to link postsecondary education to the specific innovation needs of industries and regions. This paper focuses on how states can better align postsecondary education with their economic needs, which will position them to compete in the global economy by producing a highly-skilled workforce and by unleashing postsecondary education institutions' power to innovate. An innovative postsecondary system must: (1) Foster among its graduates the critical skills and capabilities needed to enhance state economic competitiveness; (2) Produce a well-qualified K-12 teacher corps that is highly skilled in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines; and (3) Create new knowledge by investing in research and development (R&D) and by establishing policies that facilitate the translation of new ideas into innovative products, processes, and services. The document also introduces a new vehicle for aligning postsecondary education to state economies -- the postsecondary education compact. Through the compact, state governments, the postsecondary education system, the Boards of Regents, and the private sector collaboratively embrace a public agenda to ensure that postsecondary education policies, programs, curricula, and resources address current, emerging, and future economic realities. Among other efforts to reform postsecondary education, governors can use the compact framework to encourage the postsecondary education system and other relevant stakeholders to agree on the mission and key outputs of a system that emphasizes innovation in exchange for state commitments to budget stability and enhanced autonomy in postsecondary education. The compact is based on an understanding of the economic needs of the state and the related outputs of the postsecondary education system. The compact involves establishing: (1) Goals; (2) State Responsibilities; and (3) Mutual Accountability. While offering accountability, the compact is flexible enough to allow for adjustments and to provide for coordination among stakeholders on how the responsibility for achieving the compact's goals and outputs will be shared by all the participating institutions. Finally, the compact presents goals and challenges from a statewide point of view, and identifies challenges and opportunities as the compact matures and, if necessary, is renegotiated. The document contains an Executive Summary and five chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) A Vision of Postsecondary Education; (3) The Postsecondary Education Compact; (4) Advancing the Compact; and (5) Conclusion: The Role of Governors. (Contains 6 footnotes and 1 table.).

Book Hearing on the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965  postsecondary Education Pipeline

Download or read book Hearing on the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965 postsecondary Education Pipeline written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the process of developing the reauthorization legislation for the Higher Education Act of 1965 and its descendants, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education heard testimony on questions pertaining to the postsecondary education pipeline and the requirements of the future work force. In particular the testimony addressed the questions of who is in the educational pipeline toward postsecondary education; what are the requirements of the future work force, particularly for persons with postsecondary education; and what are the challenges facing postsecondary institutions in their efforts to educate those in the education pipeline. On these questions, the following witnesses spoke: Arnold Packer, co-author, Workforce 2000; Anthony Carnevale, American Society for Training and Development; Carol Frances, Carol Frances Plus Associates; K. Scott Hughes of K. Scott Hughes Associates; Stephen Trachtenberg, President of George Washington University; Eugene Deloatch, Dean of Engineering, Morgan State University; and Ken Lay, International Business Machines, Director of International Education. The document also includes prepared statements, letters and supplemental materials from the witnesses as well as Stephen J. Blair of the National Association of Trade and Technical Schools, and E. Thomas Coleman, Representative to Congress from Missouri. (JB)

Book Academia Next

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bryan Alexander
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-14
  • ISBN : 1421436426
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Academia Next written by Bryan Alexander and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusually multifaceted approach to American higher education that views institutions as complex organisms, Academia Next offers a fresh perspective on the emerging colleges and universities of today and tomorrow.

Book Strategies for Postsecondary Education

Download or read book Strategies for Postsecondary Education written by Peter Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, Strategies for Postsecondary Education looks at how postsecondary education absorbs an increasing proportion of education budgets in developed countries. The book analyses the inequalities in the American postsecondary education system and compares its performance with France and the United Kingdom. The traditional concept of higher education with its preference for the college sector is now being challenged by the notion of postsecondary education which embraces the community colleges and preparatory schools in the United States and the polytechnics in Great Britain. The book argues that the development of the non-collegiate sector, including further education outside a formal educational context, will extend the range of educational opportunity and make much better use of limited resources.

Book The Great Upheaval

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  • Author : Arthur Levine
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 1421442582
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Great Upheaval written by Arthur Levine and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will America's colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic, and demographic change? The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties. In this great upheaval, the nation's most enduring social institutions are at a crossroads. In The Great Upheaval, Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a unique historical, cross-industry perspective, Levine and Van Pelt perform a 360-degree survey of American higher education. Combining historical, trend, and comparative analyses of other business sectors, they ask • how much will colleges and universities change, what will change, and how will these changes occur? • will institutions of higher learning be able to adapt to the challenges they face, or will they be disrupted by them? • will the industrial model of higher education be repaired or replaced? • why is higher education more important than ever? The book is neither an attempt to advocate for a particular future direction nor a warning about that future. Rather, it looks objectively at the contexts in which higher education has operated—and will continue to operate. It also seeks to identify likely developments that will aid those involved in steering higher education forward, as well as the many millions of Americans who have a stake in its future. Concluding with a detailed agenda for action, The Great Upheaval is aimed at policy makers, college administrators, faculty, trustees, and students, as well as general readers and people who work for nonprofits facing the same big changes.

Book Academia Next

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  • Author : Bryan Alexander
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2020-01-14
  • ISBN : 1421436434
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Academia Next written by Bryan Alexander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the renowned futurist, a look at how current trends will transform American higher education over the next twenty years. 2020 Most Significant Futures Work Award Winner, Association of Professional Futurists The outlook for the future of colleges and universities is uncertain. Financial stresses, changing student populations, and rapidly developing technologies all pose significant challenges to the nation's colleges and universities. In Academia Next, futurist and higher education expert Bryan Alexander addresses these evolving trends to better understand higher education's next generation. Alexander first examines current economic, demographic, political, international, and policy developments as they relate to higher education. He also explores internal transformations within postsecondary institutions, including those related to enrollment, access, academic labor, alternative certification, sexual assault, and the changing library, paying particularly close attention to technological changes. Alexander then looks beyond these trends to offer a series of distinct scenarios and practical responses for institutions to consider when combating shrinking enrollments, reduced public support, and the proliferation of technological options. Arguing that the forces he highlights are not speculative but are already in play, Alexander draws on a rich, extensive, and socially engaged body of research to best determine their likeliest outcomes. It is only by taking these trends seriously, he writes, that colleges and universities can improve their chances of survival and growth. An unusually multifaceted approach to American higher education that views institutions as complex organisms, Academia Next offers a fresh perspective on the emerging colleges and universities of today and tomorrow.

Book Postsecondary Participation and State Policy

Download or read book Postsecondary Participation and State Policy written by Mario C. Martinez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows that all sectors of society, across age and racial groups, consider access to higher education as essential to achieving satisfying employment and a better quality of life. Yet there has been surprisingly little public discussion about recent major changes in higher education access and funding and no policy debate about how to respond to Americans’ growing aspirations about college.This book stimulates debate by presenting research about future demand: changing patterns of postsecondary participation and census projections over the next fifteen years, and their implications for resources and funding.The author disaggregates state data, taking into account states’ individual histories, size, age demographics, regional characteristics and priorities, to show the different policy options available. Rather advancing any particular policy, the author aims to stimulate an informed discussion about alternative strategies to meet demand and increase access. What is the college population likely to look like in 2015? What are the projected patterns for traditional and adult students? What factors will influence enrollment in private or public institutions, or two- or four-year colleges? The authors set their analyses in the context of the public and private benefits of higher education. This volume presents multiple scenarios of future enrollment, and state-by-state comparisons, that are vital for setting priorities and determining the implications of increasing access to higher education.