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1) Economic Conditions, Employability and Workforce Issues

Adams, Scott, “How to Get a Real Education,” The Wall Street Journal. April 9, 2011.

Bornstein, David, “Training Youths in the Ways of the Workforce,” New York Times, January 24, 2011.

Calvin, Geoff. “A New American Exceptionalism – That’s Not Just About the Money,” Fortune, February 28, 2011.

Carey, Kevin, “What Do Your Grads Make? Students and Parents Deserve to Know.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2011.

Carlson, Scott. “In Follow-Up, ‘Academically Adrift’ Students Show Worrisome Levels of Debt and Joblessness, Author Says,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12, 2011. Response to book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

Cowan, Tyler. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton, February 2011.

Coy, Peter, “Youth Unemployment Bomb.” Bloomberg-Business Week, February 2, 2011.

Economist, “The Great Stagnation,” The Economist, January 27, 2011.

Economist, “Stagnation or Inequality,” The Economist, March 5, 2011.

Fish, Stanley. “Vocationalism, Academic Freedom, and Tenure,” The New York Times, July 11, 2011. Review of Naomi Shaeffer Riley’s Book, The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For.

Ford, Martin. The Lights in the Tunnel, Acculant Publishing, 2009.

Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race between Education and Technology, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Harvard Graduate School of Education, Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenges of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century, February 2011.

Haque, Omar, “Egypt’s Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near You,” Harvard Business Review Blog, February 1, 2011.

Lees, John, “Crack the Hidden Job Market,” HBR Blog Network, Harvard Business Review, August 5, 2011.

Liu, Melinda and Marije Vlaskamp, “Smart Young, and Broke: White Collar Workers are China’s New Underclass,” Newsweek, June 28-July 5, 2010.

Lowry, Rich, “The Real Crisis of the Working Class,” New York Post, December 10, 2010.

Mandel, Michael, “Interrupted Innovation,” Business Week, June 15, 2009.

McIntosh, Ewan, “Schools Are Churning Out the Unemployable,” Huffington Post, November 29, 2010.

McKinsey Global Institute, An Economy That Works: Job Creation and America’s Future, McKinsey Global Institute, June 2011. Companion article: Thomas Friedman, “The Uncertainty Tax,” The New York Times, June 11, 2011.

Pearlstein, Steven. “Much of Nation’s Recent Growth May Have Been a Mirage,” Washington Post, February 1, 2011.

Schumpeter, “I, Robot Manager,” The Economist, March 31, 2011.

Pearlstein, Steven, “The Global Economy Comes to the End of its String,” The Washington Post, August 4, 2011.

Ratnesar, Romesh, “Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical,” Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 7-13, 2011.

Rifkin, Jeremy. The End of Work. Tarcher/Putnam, 1995.

Schneider, Carol Geary, “’Degrees for What Jobs?’ Wrong Question, Wrong Answers,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2011.

Schumpeter, “Too Much Information: how to cope with data overload,” The Economist, July 2, 2011.

Vedder, Richard, “Too Many Ph.D.’s and Professionals,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2011.

2) Is Higher Education a Bubble?

Carey, Kevin, “Is Higher Education a Bubble/Fraud/Conspiracy/Ponzi Scheme, Part 2,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 16, 2011.

Cronin, Joseph Marr and Howard E. Horton, “Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?”
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22, 2009.

Hacker, Andrew and Claudia Dreifus, “The Debt Crisis at American Colleges,” Aug 17 2011, The Atlantic.

New York Times, “Do We Spend Too Much on Education?” Discussion on The New York Times, August 23, 2011.
Peter Thiel, “College Doesn’t Create Success”
Judith Scott-Chapman, “A Smart Bet, But No Guarantee”
Richard Vedder, “Spending Triples, Results Slide”
Cecilia E. Rouse, “Investing in a Better Life”
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, “A Good Use of a Few Years”
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, “Spend Smarter, Not Less”
Sandra Stotsky, “Tailoring to Students’ Interests”
Pamela Burdman, “Is It a Priority to Teach the Poor?”
Barbara Hofer, “Preparation for Work”

Lacy, Sarah, “Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet, It’s Higher Education,” Techcrunch.com, April 10, 2011.

Lazere, Donald, “Higher Education: Golden Goose or Dead Duck?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Innovations, April 14, 2011.

Ryal, Michael, “The Business School Tuition Bubble,” Harvard Business Review blog, May 2, 2011.

3) Support for Value of Education/ Return on Investment in Education....for Now


Marsh, John, “Why Education Is Not an Economic Panacea,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 28, 2011.

Supiano, Beckie, “When it Comes to Earnings, Higher Education Isn’t the Whole Story,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 2011.

Vedder, Richard, “Universities and Income Equality: New Evidence and Conjectures,” The Chronicle of Higher education, August 25, 2011.

4) Information and Communication Technologies Transforming Scholarship, Learning and Work

Davidson, Cathy, “Education for the Future, Not the Past,” DML Central, January 19, 2010.

Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Lead, Viking, 2011.

Katz, Richard N., “Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age,” EDUCAUSE REVIEW, March/April, 2010.

Norris, Donald M., Jon Mason and Paul Lefrere, Transforming e-Knowledge: A Revolution in Knowledge Sharing, Ann Arbor: Society for College and University Planning, 2003.

Norris, Donald M. and Michael G. Dolence. “Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century.” Society for College and University Planning: Ann Arbor, 1995.

Thompson, Clive. “The New Way to Be a Fifth Grader: The Khan Academy is changing the rules of education,” Fast Company, August, 2011.

5) Emerging Technologies for the 21st Century

Bennett, Drake. “I’ll Have My Robots Talk to Your Robots,” Bloomberg Business Week, February 21, 2011.

Brown, Arnold, “Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society,” The Futurist, March-April 2011.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium, The Horizon Report, 2011 Edition.

Gonick, Lev. “2011: The Year Ahead in IT,” Inside Higher Ed, January 3, 2011.

Grobart, Sam. “10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology,” The New York Times, December 29, 2010.

Halal, William. “Emerging Technologies and the Global Crisis of Maturity,” The Futurist, March/April 2009. The Website of the TechCastr Project can be found at http://www.techcast.org/.

Irvine, James, H. and Sandra Schwarzbach, “The Top 20 (Plus 5) Technologies for the World Ahead,” The Futurist, May/June 2011.

Katz, Richard N. (Editor), The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing, EDUCAUSE 2008.

Kurzweil, Ray, The Singularity Is Near, Viking Press, 2005.

Moravec, John. “Five Predictions for 2011 that Will Rock the Education World,” Education Futures, 12/30/2010.

Weiser, Marc. "The Computer for the 21st Century" - Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991.

Williams, Louis, “The University of the Future Is Here,” The Australian, June 01, 2011.


6) Learning from the Insights of Millennial Learners

Carey, Kevin, “College for $99 a Month,” Washington Monthly, September/October 2009.

Gravois, John, “The College For-profits Should Fear,” Washington Monthly, September/October 2011.

Kamenetz, Anya, The Edupunk’s Guide to a DIY Credential, sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2011.

Kamenetz, Anya, Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Credit Cards, Bad Jobs, No Benefits and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers – and How to Fight Back, Riverhead Books, 2006.

Kamenetz, Anya. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2010.

Norrris, Donald M. “DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education” book review in Planning for Higher Education, 2010.

Redden, Molly, “7 in 10 Students Have Not Bought Too-Costly Textbooks, Survey Finds,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 23, 2011.

Settersen, Richard and Barbara Ray, Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone, Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks Original, 2010.

The Economist, “Left out in the Rain: It’s tougher than it appears for the millennial generation,” The Economist, January 6, 2011.

7) Disruptive Innovation Comes to Education

Christensen, Clayton M. and Henry J. Eyring, The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011.

Christensen, Clayton M., Michael B. Horn, Louis Caldera, Louis Soares, “Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education,” Center for American Progress, February 2011.

Schumpeter, “Declining by Degree: Will America’s universities go the way of its car companies?” The Economist, September 4, 2010.

Schumpeter, “How to Make College Cheaper: better management would allow American universities to do more with less,” The Economist, July 9, 2011.

Schumpeter, “Angst for the Educated,” The Economist, September 3, 2011.


8) 21st Century Learning


Anderson, Janna Quitney and Lee Rainey, “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future,” Pew Research Center, March 31, 2010.

Carey, Kevin. “The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 20, 2011.

Thompson, Clive. “The New Way to Be a Fifth Grader: The Khan Academy is changing the rules of education,” Fast Company, August, 2011.

Carey, Kevin. “The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 20, 2011.

Carey, Kevin. “A College Education for All Free and Online,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 10, 2011.

Cordell, Ryan. “New Technologies to Get Your Students Engaged,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 8, 2011.

Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Lead, Viking, 2011.

Fischman, Josh. “The Rise of Teaching Machines,” The Chronicle of Higher education, May 8, 2011.

Gabriel, Trip. “More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality,” New York Times, April 5, 2011.

Glenn, David. “Online Learning Portals: Customizing Colleges Right Out of Higher Education,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29, 2011.

Heffernan, Virginia. “Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade,” New York Times, August 7, 2011.

Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), London: JISC, 2009.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.” Free online course available in partnership with Stanford University School of Engineering, Oct. 10- Dec. 16, 2011.

Levin, Tamar. “On-line Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree,” The New York Times, August 25, 2011.

Levin, Tamar. “Open Courses, Nearly Free,” The New York Times, August 25, 2011.

Markoff, John, “Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course,” The New York Times, August 15, 2011.

Smith, Peter, Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.

The Future of Higher Education: Beyond the Campus,” EDUCAUSE, January 2010.

The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning,” The Economist, October 2008.

Tierney, William. “Creating a Meaningful College Experience in an Era of Streamlining,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12, 2011.

Urstadt, Bryant, “Salman Khan: The Messiah of Math” Alex Tehrani, “The Math of Khan,” Bloomberg-Business Week, May 19, 2011.

Wood, Peter, “Unnumbered,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2011.

Carey, Kevin, “College for $99 a Month,” Washington Monthly, September/October 2009.

Norris, Donald M. and Paul Lefrere, “Transforming Online Learning and Competence Building,” Plenary Speech at the Lumina Foundation National Productivity Conference, November 16, 20-10.

Gravois, John, “The College For-profits Should Fear,” Washington Monthly, September/October 2011.

Redden, Molly, “7 in 10 Students Have Not Bought Too-Costly Textbooks, Survey Finds,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 23, 2011.

9) 21st Century Learning Spaces

Diana Oblinger, Learning Spaces, an EDUCAUSE ebook, 2006.

Mark Valenti, “Learning Space Design: Precepts and Assumptions,” EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005.

Mark Valenti, “Creating the Classroom of the Future: The Black Box Theater and AV/IT Convergence,” EDUCAUSE Review, 2002.

Mitchell, William, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn, MIT Press 1996.

Norris, Donald M. “Space: The Final Frontier”, On the Horizon, 1999.

10) 21st Century Research and Collaboration Spaces

Boyer, Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990.

Carr, Nicholas, “TR10: Real-Time Search,” Technology Review, February 2, 2011.

Darnton, Robert. “5 Myths About the ‘Information Age,’” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 2011.

Dilworth, Mark A. “Designing Today’s Research Environments,' College Planning & Management, October 2007.

Fischman, Josh. “Dumped on by Data: Scientists Say a Deluge is Drowning Research,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 10, 2011.

Guterman, Lila, “Learning to Swim in the Rising Tide of Scientific Data,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 29, 2001.

Kolowich, Steve. “The Librarian’s Crystal Ball,” Inside Higher Ed, June 23, 2010.

Macilwain, Colin. “Facebook of Science Aims to Reshape Peer Review,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 4, 2011.

Reich, Eugenie Samuel, “Thrift in Store for US Research,” IN FOCUS, Nature, August 25, 2011.

Rowland, Cynthia; Heather Mariger, Peter M. Siegel, and Jonathan Whiting, “Transforming the Institution: Universal Design for the Digital Environment,” EDUCAUSE Review, November/December 2010.

Velquest, “SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook, product description.”

Watch, Daniel and Deepa Tolat, “Research Laboratory,” Whole Building Design Guide, National Institute of Building Sciences, Last updated 5-26-10.

Whole Building Design Guide (Selected Readings), a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences.
Daniel Watch and Deepa Tolat, “Research Laboratory” Last updated 5-26-10
Daniel Watch, “Trends in Lab Design” Last updated 6-18-2010
Judith Heerwagen, Kevin Kelly, and Kevin Kampschroer, “The Changing Nature of Organizational, Work, and Workplace, Last Updated 2-8-2006
WBDG Productive Committee, “Design for the Changing Workplace.” Last updated 8-13-2009

Young, Jeffrey R. “Crowd Science Reaches New Heights,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28,2010.

11) Planning from the Future, Backwards

Blanken, Rhea, “Being Expeditionary,” ASAE – The Center for Association Leadership, 2001

Carsley, Lee. “Planning from the Future Backwards – A workshop for planning in times of turbulence
Cognitive Edge, David Snowden, “Planning from the Future, Backwards,” 2010.

Cetron, Marvin J. and Owen Davies, “Trends Shaping Tomorrow’s World,” The Futurist, May-June 2010.

Friedman, George, The Next Decade and The Next 100 Years, Doubleday, 2010 and 2011.

The Futurist, Outlook 2011, World Future Society, 2010.

Gibson, William, The Neuromancer, 1984.

Ginsberg, Benjamin, “The Strategic Plan: Neither Strategy Nor Plan, but a Waste of Time,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 17, 2011.

Hagel, John S. III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, Basic Books, 2010.

Halal, William and Michael Marien, “Global MegaCrisis: Four Scenarios, Two Perspectives,” The Futurist, May-June 2011.

James, Jennifer, Thinking in the Future Tense: Leadership Skills for a New Age, Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Jarzabkowski and Julia Balogun. “The Practice and Process of Delivering Integration through Strategic Planning,” Journal of Management Studies, 46:8, December 2009.

Kotter, John P., Leading Change, Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Kotter, John P. and Dan S. Cohen. The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations, Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.

Norris, Donald M. and Nick L. Poulton, A Guide to Planning for Change, Society for College and University Planning, 2008.

Society for College and University Planning, Future Trends, 2011.

Taylor, Bill. “The 10 Questions Every Change Agent Must Answer,” HBR Blog Network, June 18, 2009.

12) Reconsidering the Future of Learning, Work, and Professional Practice

Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Microsoft’s founder would invest in fields proved to produce jobs. Apple’s founder extols liberal arts,” Discussion on The New York Times, March 20, 2011.
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, “Rival Views, Both Right.”
Brian Fitzgerald, “The Jobs of Tomorrow.”
Edwin W. Koc, “Just Wait 10 Years.”
Vivek Wadhwa, “The Leaders of Silicon Valley.”
Mark Bauerlein, “Write Your Way to Success.”
Amanda L. Griffith, “What if You’re Bad at Math?”
Ed Lazowska, “Go for Computer Science.”
Anya Kamenetz, “When Classrooms Can’t Keep Pace.”

Davidson, Cathy, “Why Higher Ed Fails at Job Preparation–and What We Can Do About It,” Blog posting, February 27, 2011.

Frey, Thomas, “Building a Rapid Job-Creation Engine,” The Futurist, June 17, 2011.

Kahlenberg, Richard, “The Purpose of Higher Education,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 1, 2011.

A. Legal Services

Center for Professional Values and Practice & IILP, “Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education,” New York Law School, April 15-16, 2011.

Markoff, John, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software,” The New York Times. March 4, 2011. .

Segal, David, “Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!” New York Times, July 16, 2011.

The Case Against Law School,” discussion on New York Times, July 21, 2011.
David Van Zandt, ”Reduce Credit Requirements”
George Leef, “Allow Anyone to Take the Bar”
Kevin noble Maillard, “It’s Not a Trade School”
Rose Cuison Villazor, “Improving, Not Overhauling”
David Lat, “Bring Back Apprenticeships”
Geoffrey R. Stone, “Learning to Think Like a Lawyer”
Linda Greene, “A Priceless Degree”
Bryan Garner, “Three Years, Better Spent”


B. Financial Services

Talty, John, “HSBC Layoffs: Did Goldman Sachs Start the Trend?” International Business Times,
August 1, 2011.

King, Steve and Carolyn Ockels, “Intuit 2020 Report: The Future of Financial Services,” Banking.com, April 11, 2011.

The Future of Financial Services: Four Key Trends: Expect a new financial services playing field to emerge over the next decade,” Credit Union Magazine, May 04, 2011.


C. Medicine and Health/Wellness

Barrio, Jennifer, “Job Prospect Report: Maintaining Equilibrium,” Pharmacy Times, March 15th, 2011.

Future of Pharmaceutical Education,” Pharmacy Education.

Future of Pharmaceutical Education,” Pharmaceutical Educational Journal.

Playdon, Zoë and Abdol Tavabie, “The Uncertain Future of Medical Education,” BMJ Careers, February 16, 2011.

The Future of Dentistry,” Dental Economics.


D. Engineering, Architecture, and Design

Brown, Tim and Jocelyn Wyatt, “Design Thinking for Social Innovation,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2010.

Chandler, David L., “Ian Waitz on the future of engineering education and research,” MIT News Office, May 18, 2011.

Ian Waitz on the future of engineering education and research,” eScience News, May 18, 2011.


Apprenticeship as the Future of Engineering Education,” Engineering-Matters.com, May 31, 2011.


E. Information Technology

Golden, Bernard, “Cloud CIO: Yes, Your Job Is at Risk,” CIO, June 6, 2011.

Lewis, Bob, “The Semiotic Diet: The Future of Work in the U.S.,” CIO, November 30, 2010.

Lewis, Bob, “Forecast Your Marketplace: The Future of Work in the U.S.,” CIO, December 9, 2010.

Lewis, Bob, “The Lack of Future of Employment: Part 3 of the ‘Future of Work Trilogy’," CIO, December 14, 2010.


F. STEM Education

Johnson, Rep. Eddie Bernice, “U.S. economic future needs STEM education,” The Hill, March 31, 2011.

Marques, Melissa, “The Future of STEM Education,” Massachusetts Academy of Sciences Blogline , February 2, 2011.

Mehen, Lori, “What is the future of STEM education in the U.S.?” OpenSource.com, July, 19, 2011.

G. Humanities and Social Sciences

Barret, Dan, “Humanities, For Sake Of Humanity,” Inside Higher Ed, March 30, 2011.

Barrett, Dan, “Yanked from the Margins,” Inside Higher Ed, February 18, 2011.

Everett, Daniel L., “The Broccoli of Higher Education. “ Inside Higher Ed, Aug 30, 2011.

Garfunkel, Sol and David Mumford, “How to Fix Our Math Education,” The New York Times, August 24, 2011.

King, Gary, “Ensuring the Data-Rich Future of the Social Sciences,” ScienceMag.org, February 11, 2011.

Pandya, Sameer, “The Crisis in Liberal Arts Education,” Miller-McCune, July 29, 2010.

Rampell, Catherine, “More College Graduates Take Public Services Jobs,” The New York Times, March 1, 2011.

Symposium on the Future of the Humanities,” The Council of Independent Colleges, March 29, 2011.


H. International Studies

The Future of International Studies,” The ISSA Citizen: Blog of CSU Long Beach's International Studies Student Association, May 27, 2011.

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