Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Carnegie Corporation of New York Backs Commission on the Future of Higher Education
The "future of higher education" landscape — already ringing with cacophonous predictions from all manner of task forces, books, conferences, and self-styled disruptors — is about to get another. This week the American Academy of Arts and Sciences will announce its own Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education.
The commission, which will include more than two dozen leaders from academe, business, and politics, has given itself an ambitious goal: to examine "the vast — and expanding — array of learning options" now available to students and to identify the challenges and opportunities higher education will confront in the next 20 to 25 years.
The commission faces a double challenge: producing a report that not only doesn’t die on a shelf but also distinguishes itself in an environment already rich with ideas and visions from so many others. . .