The document discusses trends in higher education, including: 1) Universities will increase online elements and decrease traditional lecture-style classes to cut costs and increase accessibility for students. 2) Globalization is a trend, as more students study abroad and universities open international campuses. 3) The economic recession changed who attends college, with more non-traditional and lower-income students pursuing online or part-time options.

1. The Future of Education
Rachael Sacks
Analyzing Trends Fall 2013

2. The Future of… Higher Education
Hypothesis: The classroom and traditional academy format of Universities will
change to having a decent percentage of an online element to a degree. The
classroom as we know it with the professor lecturing at the front will cease to
exist as it is now as Universities attempt to streamline faculty and budget .
They will have to put in money to reformatting classrooms and updating
facilities but it will pay off with enrollment. Students looking to get life
experience and use college as more of a vocational school will take more
online and dynamic session courses to achieve their degrees more efficiently.

3. Globalization

4. College is seen as a time of culturalization and studying abroad has now become an
expectation for most and universities hope to see themselves as more of a global
power so the “Global Campus” has become a trend with NYU establishing outposts
in Dubai, Paris, and Shanghai in addition to others and the New School opening
Parsons Paris.

6. Force of Change:
The Economic Recession
The recession changed who attends College and
when and how.

7. Universities have split into “Haves” and “Have Nots” in how students experience
Higher Education.
Universities cater to the Students with Money who expect all of these fancy
dorms and gym facilities
But they also have to cater to part time students who may be working full time
on top of classes or need to take classes online.

8. Private 4 year colleges and Universities which enrolled 3.7
million students in 2009 spent about $22,514 per student
on instruction (including faculty salaries) academic
support, and student services.

9. Response to Recession:
Working Adults Need More Degrees
Rise in for-profit Universities and
creation of MOOCs

10. Introduction of COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION

11. : Universities
as Corporations

12. SUBCULTURE:
CONSUMER STUDENTS
“We deal with students who expect a climbing wall to be available in the gym.
They certainly have huge expectations for the information technology we will
provide to them. We are facing some real questions about whether we can afford
to meet all of these consumer demands”. –Joel M.Smith Provost and CIO at
Carnegie Mellon University

13. Prediction: Increasingly Luxurious
Dorms and Facilities
A 2006 study published by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers found
that “poorly maintained or inadequate residential facilities” was the number-one
reason students rejected enrolling at institutions.

14. Client:
New School University

15. Founded in 1919 as “The University in Exile” the New School has always sought to be
progressive and innovative in Higher Education.
It’s ahead of its time with its “student directed curriculum” which
seems to be more and more where higher education is headed.

16. The Progressive seminar format of classes at Eugene Lang College could benefit
from the dynamically designed seating I brought up earlier. This is another example
of an alternative classroom.

17. As a response to the demands for newer and better facilities the New School has built
the University Center which will be completed in January 2014.

18. Establishing Series of MOOC’s and expanding online learning
The New School has yet to establish itself as a well known producer of
online content and it should. There are online course offerings but they
are very limited.
While only 2.6% of Universities have MOOC’s at the current time about 9% are
planning for it.

19. Change of Calendar to quarters or increase sessions

20. Trends in Universities: for the New School to Follow
EXPANSION OF INFLUENCE
GLOBALIZATION
PERSONALIZED, COLLABORATIVE LEARNING