5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About: The Future of Higher Education with Bryan Alexander — DT101 E97

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode of the Design Thinking 101 podcast is 5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About: the Future of Higher Education. Our guest today is Bryan Alexander. Bryan is a senior scholar at Georgetown University and runs a consultancy focused on the future of higher education.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>Listen to learn about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The current state of higher education</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Student loan debt and the financial structure of universities and colleges</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The role of tech and digital platforms in higher ed</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The effects of the lack of population growth and increased longevity on higher education and society</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The connection between higher education and the climate crisis</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How science fiction can help us think about the future</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Guest</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bryan Alexander is an award–winning, internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education’s future.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997, with a dissertation on doppelgangers in Romantic-era fiction and poetry.  Then Bryan taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. There he also pioneered multi-campus interdisciplinary classes, while organizing an information literacy initiative.</span>