Definition of What Students of the Future Need to Know

Factors, Forces, Connections, and Questions

  • Middle States accreditation and new standards for student outcomes
  • Industry practices and expectations of graduates
    • Want students to possess: originality, innovation, creativity; be flexible, able to work in teams, and globally aware; have perspective, and good communication skills as much so as hard skills. The raw materials include those things that liberal arts teach us.
  • How students learn is changing
  • Learning is more experiential
  • Technology & Internet influences
  • Change and pace of change accelerating
  • Role of the professor in future?
  • Demographics of students will change   

References, Evidence, Support