Just as the country is seeing a big shift in the way we see information obtained and consumed, so, too, is higher education experiencing a shift.
That was the message a group of higher education leaders delivered at the 2015 Men and Women of Color Summit at Mississippi State University last week.
“The landscape of higher education is changing,” said Karl Reid, executive director of the National Society of Black Engineers. “I believe higher education is going through a paradigm shift and I believe the forces that are driving that are affordability … and technology.”
If rising and current leaders in the higher education space are going to best serve their students, they are going to have to recognize the shift and be ready to adapt.
“Higher ed hasn’t always been flexible or nimble,” said Dr. Regina Hyatt, the new vice president for student affairs at Mississippi State. “We’re used to doing things in a certain way and a certain pattern.
“We all are playing a little bit of catch-up in the higher ed space to learn how students process information.”
But the panelists said that has to change.
