Trends for Higher Education

From demographics and social change to politics and technology, many trends impact higher education. SCUP’s bi-annual Trends for Higher Education report can help you and your institution make sense of the most significant issues, movements, and changes.

What Is Trends

Trends scans a wide range of sources and identifies the most important factors—those that may influence your work today, tomorrow, over the next decade, and beyond.

We collate and curate the news so you don’t have to, collecting and summarizing relevant trends and explaining what they might mean for your institution.

Each trend includes a brief summary, a footnoted source, and discussion questions to help you analyze and act.

Topics:

Social movements
Technologic evolution
Economic changes
Envirnomental shifts
Political changes

How to Use Trends

Inform your environmental scanning or SWOT analysis
Support strategic planning efforts
Discuss the future of higher education
Serve as evidence to support your budget requests
Assist in program prioritization
Help develop new curricula

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Featured Trend

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How to Lead When You’re Not the Top Gun

Harry Kraemer, a clinical professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, offers a road map for becoming one of the “go to” people who drive action and progress in an organization. You don’t need a huge staff, he says, just “lead from where you are.” Raise issues but also offer solutions. Learn everything you can about your institution. Build a cross-campus network of contacts. And nurture leadership in others.³

For discussion

As increasingly complex institutions, universities need strong leaders at all levels of the organizational chart. To raise your own visibility and influence on campus, how might you adapt some of Professor Kraemer’s ideas? How can you inspire staff to engage more deeply in their work? To use one of Kraemer’s metaphors, how can you nudge your staff to move from “watching the movie” to “being in the movie”?

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Don’t Wait to Be Asked: Lead ^[3]
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Implications of the External Environment | Fall 2017

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Evolution of Higher Education | Spring 2017

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The Future of Learning | Fall 2016