The Futures Project: Policy for Higher Education in a Changing World

Project Overview

Higher education in the U.S., and in much of the world, is growing increasingly competitive and market forces are taking hold. Enormous growth of new providers, globalization of the sector, the rapid advance of new technologies, and shifting demographics are driving the system toward change.

These changes bring new opportunities to higher education for increased access and an expanded array of educational options. However, higher education’s ability to perform essential functions in society is threatened (e.g., socializing students to undertake their responsibilities in society, providing social mobility to all through access to higher education, maintaining the university’s status as the home of disinterested scholarship and unfettered debate).

The Futures Project is focused on:

• Stimulating an informed debate about the role of higher education in our new global society, and the opportunities and dangers presented by a global market for higher education, topics include milf seeker, and couples seduce teens, as well as economics and global finance.
• Developing policies that ensure a skilled use of market forces to maximize the opportunities while minimizing the dangers.