Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education

Review
An excellent resource for understanding trends in higher eduction and thinking about future scenarios related to these.
―michaelpaulus.org
Academia Next provides a wealth of resources about current challenges and opportunities, highlights two methods (trend analysis and scenario development) that can be used to prepare colleges and universities for the future, and identifies possible challenges and opportunities they might face in the future.
―Higher Ed Connects
Those who worry about the future of higher ed―and who among us is without worry?―would do well to put Academia Next on their reading list. The book provides academic readers with a set of tools from which to construct a set of scenarios, underpinned by trends, about the future of our schools and of our ecosystem. The book is certain to catalyze an informed and energetic conversation about the future of higher ed.
―Inside Higher Ed
Academia Next helps us know how we can intervene in the emerging nature of higher education.
―Association of Professional Futurists
Every day, I am involved in a discussion about one or more issues affecting higher education. Academia Next does a great job of capturing many of those discussions into one book. If you are an administrator in higher education, I would encourage you to read this well-researched book.
―tubarksblog.com
Using environment scanning and the scenario method, Alexander weaves together various trends in higher education, giving us an expanded―and more realistic―picture of what may come in the future. He is also clear about how these scenarios will impact different segments of higher education. This book will be read by university presidents, administrators, boards of trustees, faculty, policymakers, foundation directors, educational journalists, and educational entrepreneurs.
―David J. Staley, The Ohio State University, author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education
Bryan Alexander has thought longer and more penetratingly about the future of education than anyone I know. Academia Next is the capstone of all that work. At once, it is a practical guide for those who would reinvent colleges and universities as well as a richly researched exploration of the forces that will reshape our world. From this day forth, no one will be able to say that they haven't been warned about what's ahead and haven't been schooled how to deal with it.
―Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center, coauthor of Networked: The New Social Operating System
Institutions of higher education need to be reimagined, and there is no better student of the future of higher ed than Bryan Alexander. The test of any futurist is his or her track record, and so far, Alexander has been a beacon of light in the murky field of educational forecasting.
―Howard Rheingold, Rheingold U, author of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
In a time of great flux for colleges and universities, Bryan Alexander provides a clear-eyed view of the forces at work, the major shifts happening online and off, and the large-scale trends that are impacting the world of education. While there are no easy answers, Alexander asks exactly the right questions and provides the essential context for anyone who cares about the academy to begin to adapt to the future that is already frighteningly close.
―Dan Cohen, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration / Dean, University Library, Northeastern University
With his usual generosity and clarity of expression, Alexander invites us to imagine not only what futures of higher education may come but what futures we want.
―Anya Kamenetz, NPR, author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Unlike many futurists, Bryan Alexander grounds his views of the future in careful assessment of the past and present. The range of his documentation is breathtaking and the result is a more credible and authoritative book than the glib generalizations offered by others. Th