The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future by Ar

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

Arthur Levine is a distinguished scholar of higher education at New York University's Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy; a senior fellow and president emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation; and president emeritus of Columbia University's Teachers College. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Students. Scott Van Pelt is the associate director of the Wharton Graduate Communication Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a lecturer.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Where You Look Determines What You SeePart One. Looking BackwardChapter One. The Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of AmericaChapter Two. Criticism, Denial, and InnovationChapter Three. New Models and DiffusionChapter Four. Standardization, Consolidation, and ScalingChapter Five. TransformationPart Two. Looking ForwardChapter Six. A Demographic Sea ChangeChapter Seven. An Emerging Knowledge EconomyChapter Eight. A Technological RevolutionChapter Nine. AdaptationPart Three. Looking SidewaysChapter Ten. The Music IndustryChapter Eleven. The Film IndustryChapter Twelve. The Newspaper IndustryChapter Thirteen. DisruptionPart Four. Looking at the PanoramaChapter Fourteen. What Will Change? Chapter Fifteen. How and When Will Change Occur?Chapter Sixteen. What Should Higher Education and Policy Makers Do?BibliographyIndex

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Searching for answers to this and other mysteries of Planet Academe, I found some excellent responses in a new book, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future, by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt.—Ann Kirschner, CUNY, ForbesIf you're looking to understand the future of higher education, you couldn't do better than to look at The Great Upheaval. What makes this book so interesting is not only its review of past changes in higher ed, but also its careful look at what has happened in leading industries such as movie-making, filmmaking, and newspapers as they've been disrupted by the online world.—Barbara Oakley, Oakland University, McMaster University, Barbara Oakley, PhDI have never doubted that higher education was on an unsustainable path and after reading The Great Upheaval by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt, I'm more sure of that than ever. They present a convincing case that our higher education system will undergo a disruption that is "needed and inevitable."—George Leef, The James G. Martin Center for Academic RenewalA valuable resource that sheds light on the issues confronting higher education today while simultaneously serving as a clarion call to action for educators, policymakers, and students alike.—Kate El-Hillow, Russell Investments

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With tectonic shifts underway in higher education, The Great Upheaval could not be more timely. Levine and Van Pelt smartly outline the challenges facing the industry and suggest ways for institutions, policy makers, and funders to respond. A well-researched, well-written, and measured analysis fueled by a burning urgency to see higher education reclaim its central role in the American promise of opportunity and social mobility for all. --Paul J. LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University

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Details ISBN1421442574 Author Scott Van Pelt Short Title The Great Upheaval Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1421442574 ISBN-13 9781421442570 Format Hardcover Subtitle Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future Audience Age 18 Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black and white Pages 336 Publication Date 2021-11-09 AU Release Date 2021-11-09 NZ Release Date 2021-11-09 US Release Date 2021-11-09 UK Release Date 2021-11-09 Alternative 9781421442587 DEWEY 378 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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