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Current Young Professionals

The Future of American Public Higher Education

Gary L. Miller

Chancellor

University of Wisconsin – Green Bay

April 23, 1005

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American Higher Education – Historical Highlights

Colonial Period – Harvard, 1636; William and Mary, 1692; Yale College, 1701; Princeton 1747

19th Century – Many small denominational colleges established

Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890

UW Madison established 1848

20th Century – Fewer than 1000 colleges and less than 160,000 students in 1900

Periods of extensive expansion: 1900 – 1930; 1950 – 1970

Land Grant Universities

Flagship Universities

Regional Comprehensive Universities

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All but three Big 10 Universities are Land Grants

Ohio State

Michigan State

Indiana

Purdue

University of Illinois

University of Iowa

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of Nebraska

University of Wisconsin

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American Higher Education – Historical Highlights

Colonial Period – Harvard, 1636; William and Mary, 1692; Yale College, 1701; Princeton 1747

19th Century – Many small denominational colleges established

Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890

UW Madison established 1848

20th Century – Fewer than 1000 colleges and less than 160,000 students in 1900

Periods of extensive expansion: 1900 – 1930; 1950 – 1970

Land Grant Universities

Flagship Universities

Regional Comprehensive Universities

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Traditional American Values of Higher Education

• Public Good

• Government investment

• Commonwealth Value

• Community Value

• Regional campus expansion

• Individual value

• Good for the degree holder

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The American Public Higher Education Partnership

University

State

Government

Federal

Government

Student

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American Higher Education by the Numbers

4,726 Degree granting universities (public and private)

3,026 Four-year universities (629 are public)

1,700 Two-year universities

21 Million students enrolled (5.7% population)

13 Million full-times (declining)

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Universities in Wisconsin

76 Universities or Professional Schools (public and private)

45 Private Universities

16 For-profit

29 Not-for-profit

31 Public Universities (4-year, 2-year, UW colleges, Tech Colleges, Tribal)

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Challenges of the Modern University

• Technology

• The Changing Partnership

• Contemporary Critique

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Consider our world:

> 2.4 Billion people use the internet

Number of mobile devices > Population of the Earth

Facebook = 3rd largest country in the world

24 Hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute

22 Million hours of TV and movies downloaded every day

19 Million hours of music downloaded every day

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Consider our world:

More units of new information

will be created this year than

in the previous 5000 years.

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Consider our world:

4000 new books are published

every day

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Consider our world:

New technical information doubles

every two years

So

A beginning university student can expect one-half of the

information she learned in her first year to be outdated

by her third year.

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Consider our world:

Every month 2.4 Billion searches are issued on Google.

Each of these searches is a question of some kind.

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“We are in a Gutenberg moment.” Thomas Friedman

For the first time in history nearly everyone can generate content and

publish it to a global audience.

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Knowledge is:

Everywhere

Expanding

Universally Accessible

Disconnected from Place

What does this mean for higher education?

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Modern universities must guide students:

Interpret

Analyze

Understand Evidence

Accommodate Change

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The American Public Higher Education Partnership

University

State

Government

Federal

Government

Student

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Crumbling Partnership

University

State

Government

Federal

Government

StudentDeclining

Declining

Declining

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Reinvestment in Higher Education

42 States have begun reinvesting in higher education

8 States have continued to cut higher education (in order of increasing

size of reduction)

• Pennsylvania

• Arkansas

• Kansas

• North Carolina

• Wisconsin

• Louisiana

• West Virginia

• Wyoming

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The Contemporary Critique

• Higher education should operate more like a business

• Higher education should be held more accountable.

• Higher education should focus on job training.

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Thank you!!

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