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.
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