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Beyond the University: Shifting Demographics in Higher Education
07 Nov - 12 Nov, 2006
(Session 436)
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Faculty:
Ossi V. Lindqvist
(Chair)
- Chairman, Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council, Kuopio, Finland
Bie Dunrong
- Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
James Duderstadt
- President Emeritus University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Juma Shabani
- Director, UNESCO Harare, Zimbabwe
Gregory Wurzburg
- Senior Economist, OECD, Directorate for Education, Paris, France
Additional Session Support:
Bernd Baumgartl
(Resource Specialist)
- Executive, Navreme Knowledge Development, Vienna
Manja Klemencic
(Resource Specialist)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Arno Loessner
(Resource Specialist)
- Professor, Graduate School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy, University of Delaware, Newark
Abstract:
In many countries, "traditional" students will soon be a numerical minority on campus. The demands of the knowledge society as well as social and demographic shifts continue to have far-reaching effects on the composition of the student body with more and more entrants (or re-entrants) well past the age of eighteen to twenty-four. In order to serve an increasingly broad and diverse spectrum of the population, higher education institutions will have to adjust their academic programs and organizational structures and become more "permeable." This session will convene practitioners and policy-makers from around the world to explore the trends in shifting student populations, analyze policies and models to respond to these trends, and evaluate the challenges and opportunities that higher education faces in the light of this development.
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