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?
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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