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Yesterday I blogged about the possible future paths of the coronavirus outbreak. Today I’d like to ask: what does all of this mean for academia? I’ve been thinking about this problem for years, actually. Disease outbreak fut...
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What might we anticipate from the Wuhan coronavirus? What does a futures perspective bring to the table? This is a very risky topic to address, naturally. The outbreak is ongoing. Data is often provisional or suspect. Mult...
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The media tour for my new book continues! Last week the Trending in Education podcast was kind enough to host me. Mike Palmer and I had a wide-ranging conversation, touching on adjuncts, pedagogy, technology, disruption, and som...
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I’d like to share a small sample of how I use social media. Not for a spectacular event, nor a comprehensive overview, and definitely not in a professionally ethnographic way, but just to demo some ways social media can work w...
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I’ve been forecasting and tracking college mergers for a while. Today I’d like to add another merger to the list. Five Minnesota community colleges will merge within two years, according to Inside Higher Ed. That’s (in a...
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Since I started researching climate change and higher education‘s future I’ve participated in and witnessed many discussions about the topic. In person and online, academia seems to be increasingly interested in exploring wh...
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Since Academia Next came out (Johns Hopkins University Press) (Amazon) I’ve lucked into a bunch of media appearances. It’s excellent to get the word out about the book, of course, but I also love the conversational aspect. I...
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It’s the year 2020 and the appearance of a new decade has many people looking ahead to see what might come up. One example comes from Inside Higher Ed. John Kroger* offers ten predictions, and it’s a useful set to work throu...
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Thinking about how higher education and climate change may intersect is a deeper topic that it might appear. Because climate change is so vast and because higher ed is so complex and sprawling, all kinds of domains and issues en...
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For the past month I’ve been I’ve following a vegan diet. So in a brief pause from my focus on the future of education, I’ll share some thoughts about this experiment. It’s actually not that great a topic shift. For on...