The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future

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Arthur Levine (The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) Scott Van Pelt (Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School)

The Great Upheaval

Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future

Arthur Levine (The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), Scott Van Pelt (Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School)

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Johns Hopkins University Press
20 May 2025

Higher & further education, tertiary education

How will America's colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic, and demographic change?

The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties. In this great upheaval, the nation's most enduring social institutions are at a crossroads.

In The Great Upheaval, Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today—and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a unique historical, cross-industry perspective, Levine and Van Pelt perform a 360-degree survey of American higher education. Combining historical, trend, and comparative analyses of other business sectors, they ask

• how much will colleges and universities change, what will change, and how will these changes occur?

• will institutions of higher learning be able to adapt to the challenges they face, or will they be disrupted by them?

• will the industrial model of higher education be repaired or replaced?

• why is higher education more important than ever?

The book is neither an attempt to advocate for a particular future direction nor a warning about that future. Rather, it looks objectively at the contexts in which higher education has operated—and will continue to operate. It also seeks to identify likely developments that will aid those involved in steering higher education forward, as well as the many millions of Americans who have a stake in its future.

Concluding with a detailed agenda for action, The Great Upheaval is aimed at policy makers, college administrators, faculty, trustees, and students, as well as general readers and people who work for nonprofits facing the same big changes.

By: Arthur Levine (The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), Scott Van Pelt (Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School)
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781421451688
ISBN 10: 1421451689
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 20 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Where You Look Determines What You See Part One. Looking Backward Chapter One. The Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of America Chapter Two. Criticism, Denial, and Innovation Chapter Three. New Models and Diffusion Chapter Four. Standardization, Consolidation, and Scaling Chapter Five. Transformation Part Two. Looking Forward Chapter Six. A Demographic Sea Change Chapter Seven. An Emerging Knowledge Economy Chapter Eight. A Technological Revolution Chapter Nine. Adaptation Part Three. Looking Sideways Chapter Ten. The Music Industry Chapter Eleven. The Film Industry Chapter Twelve. The Newspaper Industry Chapter Thirteen. Disruption Part Four. Looking at the Panorama Chapter Fourteen. What Will Change? Chapter Fifteen. How and When Will Change Occur? Chapter Sixteen. What Should Higher Education and Policy Makers Do? Bibliography Index

Arthur Levine is president emeritus of Columbia University's Teachers College and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Students. Scott Van Pelt is the Director of Research and Faculty Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Reviews for The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future

"Searching for answers to this and other mysteries of Planet Academe, I found some excellent responses in a new book, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future, by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt. —Ann Kirschner, CUNY, Forbes If you're looking to understand the future of higher education, you couldn't do better than to look at The Great Upheaval. What makes this book so interesting is not only its review of past changes in higher ed, but also its careful look at what has happened in leading industries such as movie-making, filmmaking, and newspapers as they've been disrupted by the online world. —Barbara Oakley, Oakland University, McMaster University I have never doubted that higher education was on an unsustainable path and after reading The Great Upheaval by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt, I'm more sure of that than ever. They present a convincing case that our higher education system will undergo a disruption that is ""needed and inevitable."" —George Leef, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal A valuable resource that sheds light on the issues confronting higher education today while simultaneously serving as a clarion call to action for educators, policymakers, and students alike. —Kate El-Hillow, Russell Investments"