Like many students, sometimes I wonder why I'm even in school. Because I want to? Just so I can get a job? I actually do like school, but many students don't and are here for the latter. Our world has gradually been making a bachelor's degree the equivalent of what a high school diploma used to be. What's going to happen now?
In my eyes, universities will continue to grow because students feel the necessity to get a degree if they have any hope of being successful in life. Campuses across the country will become crowded; strained for space, time, and qualified professors. Graduate programs will expand because more and more students feel like they need that extra punch to get a position somewhere, but where they'll really end up is teaching at a university because they just need more instructors.
On the upside, we'll have really awesome technology coming up in the new future. And even if we can't get that into our classrooms as easily, the technology we have now will become even more accessible for everyone. Every student would have a tablet of some kind for classes. Boards in classrooms can be large touch screens for smaller classroom settings. Maybe the skills of our professors will improve and they'll be able to upload documents to the school site (D2L?) right the first time, and find links on YouTube without a student coming up to help.
But it's not very far away, so we'll see what 2025 brings when it gets here I suppose!
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