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Watch for these 5 high-impact trends shaping higher education business in 2025

University Business

In 2013, Harvard Business School professors Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn made a striking prediction in the New York Times , forecasting that a host of struggling colleges and universities the bottom 25 percent of every tier, we predict will disappear or merge in the next 10 to 15 years.

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Is a 4-Year College Degree Still Necessary?

MindMax

I remember in 2012, when Rick Santorum called President Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody to go to college.” Rethinking the Value of a 4-Year Degree The value of a college education, and specifically a 4-year bachelor’s degree, is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. It wasn’t long ago that I felt differently.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). Finally, both on and off-campus networks can play a valuable role in inspiring and informing faculty in their interdisciplinary endeavors, providing guidance, leadership approaches, and strategies to overcome barriers (Kezar & Elrod, 2012; Weiberg & Harding, 2004). 2017; Liu et al.,

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Walking down the road to Kingdom Come: some steps away from a Higher Education Funding Crisis?

HEPI

The sector did not claim the system was broken in 2012, so it is hard to argue that it is broken now. From 2030 to 2038 the eighteen-year-old age cohort (2012 and 2020 live births) falls from 729,674 to 613,936, a decline of 15.9%. It is, however, increasingly inadequately funded. But the real crux is yet to come.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

2009; Kezar & Elrod, 2012). Finally, both on and off-campus networks can play a valuable role in inspiring and informing faculty in their interdisciplinary endeavors, providing guidance, leadership approaches, and strategies to overcome barriers (Kezar & Elrod, 2012; Weiberg & Harding, 2004). 2017; Liu et al.,

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US Higher Education's Move to the Right

Higher Education Inquirer

While conservative scholars have long been underrepresented in academia, a growing number of universities are seeing new initiatives to diversify intellectual perspectives. Founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, TPUSA has become one of the leading organizations promoting conservative views among students. status as a democratic superpower.

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Where Higher Ed Should Be More Businesslike

Inside Higher Ed

Eyring, College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education by Jeffrey Selingo, and Kevin Carey’s The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere. When we’re talking about teaching and learning, academia could hardly be worse in terms of its structure and practices.