Trends for Higher Education
Trends Inside Higher Education | Spring 2021
Published February 16, 2021
Challenges:
Accreditation Pressures, Change Management, Competing Priorities, COVID-19 Response and Planning, Dealing with Climate Change, Engaging Stakeholders, Funding Uncertainty, Planning Alignment, Student Success, Retention, and GraduationPlanning Types:
Academic Planning, Campus Planning, Continuity Planning, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning, Information Technology Planning, Institutional Effectiveness Planning, Resource Planning, Strategic Enrollment Management Planning, Strategic Planning, Student Affairs Planning, Sustainability Planning
Within the world of higher education, what are some of today’s key trends—and what are some implications for institutions of higher learning? While the COVID-19 pandemic has drawn much of our focus for a year now, we continue to keep our eyes on other trends and forces. This issue broadly explores trends inside higher education.
We’ve organized Trends using STEEP:
- Social: How people think, behave, and interact, including beliefs, values, culture, and lifestyle
- Technology: How people use technology (including hardware and software), how society relies on technology, and how technology affects society
- Economic: Macro- or microeconomics, including global trends, anything related to jobs and skills needed for jobs, and industry shifts
- Environmental: Our external surroundings, including sustainability and our evolving workplaces, cities, and living spaces
- Political: Public policy, governmental systems, the people within them, and the effects of government decisions on our citizens and communities
Each trend includes a brief trend summary, a footnoted source, and discussion questions to help you analyze and act on the trend.
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