The Top SCUP10 for December 2011

December 5, 2012 | Ann Arbor

What Are Higher Ed Planners Thinking About?

Higher education leaders and others are disagreeing about a possible higher education bubble. If there is a bubble, could small colleges and the humanities be the canaries in the higher education coal mine? Integrated planning like the Futures Initiative at Smith College, David Orr’s regional initiative, the Oberlin Project (both of those very good news for small colleges, as is HASTAC for the humanities), and the University of Florida development project demonstrate innovation and optimism for long range institutional direction planning. But author Daniel Kahneman, in Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence, alerts us to the inherent danger of overconfidence among professionals. Meanwhile, interest is constant in better understanding students and the use of campus space on their behalf.

Top 10 (of more than 200) Selected News & Resources

1. When Will the Higher Education Bubble Explode? | Forbes
2. Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence by Daniel Kahneman | The New York Times
3. The Futures Initiative Strategic Thinking Process | Smith College
4. David Orr's Regional Initiative, The Oberlin Project | The Chronicle of Higher Education
5. Worried? I’m Terrified: Essay on the push for radical changes in higher education | Inside Higher Ed
6. Make Way for Millennials: A SCUP Portfolio on How Students are Shaping Higher Education | Society for College and University Planning
7. University of Florida Builds Innovative Complex for Economic Development | St. Petersburg Times
8. So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities? | YouTube
9. The Third Place, Pecha Kucha 20x20 | YouTube
10. 4-Year Institutions Starting to Worry? | Inside Higher Ed

These are the 10 most popular recent knowledge resources from among 200+ shared with several thousand visitors to social media venues of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) during November 2011.