Written by: Rebecca Quintana and James DeVaney
Published by: Inside Higher Ed
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: Institutions should not give up on the present in order to plan for the future, nor should they look ahead to the future before solving the problems at our doorstep. So much has changed in the last month. Yet when we zoom out from our screens and reflect back to a time before social distancing, the vision we had for the future of higher education remains unaltered. At the same time, the challenges standing in the way of realizing that vision have moved more distinctly into our field of view.
To be clear, we are not in denial about the shifts we are all experiencing nor do we underestimate the difficulty of accurately predicting the most likely future scenarios. But we take comfort from the fact that our preferred future for higher education — transformed access, inclusive learning communities, problem-based interdisciplinary education, lifelong learning and multimodal design — remains unchanged. In fact, these goals and aspirations seem even more critical now than they did in a time before COVID-19.