Higher Ed Futures: Possibilities, Vision, Options - Bryan Alexander

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Bryan Alexander discusses the challenges and future possibilities for higher education amidst a polycrisis.

Send us Fan Mail Higher education is navigating a polycrisis, a confluence of demographic shifts, economic instability, political hostility, and technological disruption that has pushed American colleges and universities into a period of managed decline. Bryan Alexander joins us to explore what that means for the future of higher ed. While agency is unevenly distributed, we all have choices to make, and together, we can shape what comes next. Bryan Alexander, PhD Bryan Alexander is an interna...

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Hosts: Denise Nelson Nash, Herminio L. Perez

Guest: Bryan Alexander

Topics covered

• higher education
• future of education
• demographic shifts
• economic instability
• technological disruption
• political hostility

Keywords

• higher education
• polycrisis
• demographic shifts
• economic instability
• political hostility
• technological disruption

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Organizations: American colleges and universities

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