Bryan Alexander (futurist)

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Bryan Alexander
"Bryan Alexander"
"Bryan Alexander"
BornFebruary 1967
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
OccupationFuturist, author
Known forpeak higher education, academic queen sacrifice, inter-campus collaborative courses, digital storytelling
Notable work
Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education; The New Digital Storytelling
Spouse(s)Ceredwyn Alexander
Websitehttps://bryanalexander.org/

Bryan Alexander is an American futurist, Georgetown University Senior Scholar and the creator of The Future of Higher Education Observatory. Alexander was one of the first experts to envision the peak in US higher education enrollment [1][2] and is a key contributor to the academic and popular culture conversation about higher education.[3][4][5] Alexander hosts the Future Trends Forum that invites thought leaders to discuss technology and culture in higher education. [6] He writes and speaks extensively about social networking, digital literacy, digital storytelling, mobile learning, and emerging technology in higher education and is the author of Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Bryan Alexander's upcoming book is Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Age of Climate Crisis.[7]

Early life and career[]

Bryan Alexander was born and raised in New York City. He earned his bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.[8] He began his career as an Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana before moving to Vermont to lead the Center of Educational Technology at Middlebury College. He then worked for many years for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) as a senior director.

In 2013, Mr. Alexander began his independent consultancy as a higher education futurist.

In 2020, Academia Next was published.

In 2021, Alexander contributed a chapter to the book Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society: From Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of Trust.[9]

Alexander is currently one of nine members on Association of Professional Futurists (APF) international board.[10]

Key ideas[]

One of Alexander's most salient ideas is about the "academic queen sacrifice." Alexander argues that US higher education has been reducing the numbers and the power of academic workers, and this puts higher education in peril.[11]

Alexander lived for many years in rural Vermont in a house that used woodstoves for heat, for which he chopped and split wood. He adopted aspects of a homesteader or "prepper" lifestyle during this time. In 2018 'Ozy' magazine referred to him as an "Ax-Wielding Futurist"[12]

Academia Next[]

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education covers several trends including: demographic transition, escalating economic inequality, rising campus costs and student debt, open education (OER, open access), increasing multimedia tools, platforms, content, creativity, and rising automation. It also covers alternate scenarios including, Health Care Nation, Peak Higher Education, Renaissance, and the Retro Campus. The book received an award from the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) in 2020.[13][14] Academia Next, written in 2018 and published in January 2020, included a pandemic scenario, presaging the COVID-19 pandemic.

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References[]

  1. ^ Thelin, John (2019). A History of American Higher Education (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 400. ISBN 9781421428833.
  2. ^ Alexander, Bryan. "Has Higher Ed Peaked?". www.insidehighered.com. Inside Higher Education. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  3. ^ Harris, Adam. "Here's How Higher Education Dies". www.theatlantic.com. The Atlantic. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  4. ^ "How the Pandemic Could Transform Higher Ed". www.wsj.com. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Can Colleges And Universities Survive The Pandemic?". /www.npr.org. National Public Rdio. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  6. ^ Young, Jeffrey R. "What Students Want Colleges to Know About COVID-19 Shutdowns". www.edsurge.com. Ed Surge. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Bryan Alexander". www.scup.org. Society for College and University Planning. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  8. ^ Bryan, Alexander. "Bio". Bryan Alexander. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  9. ^ BUGEJA, MICHAEL. "How often do you lie? It's probably more often than you realize". iowacapitaldispatch.com. Iowa Capital Dispatch. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  10. ^ "APF Board". apf.org. APF. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  11. ^ Paquette, Gabriel. "Can Higher Ed Save Itself? Business as usual won't solve the existential challenges we face. Will anything?". www.chronicle.com. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  12. ^ George, Lorenzo. "The Ax-Wielding Futurist Swinging for a Higher Ed Tech Revolution". Ozy.
  13. ^ Alexander, Bryan (2020). Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education (1st ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1421436425.
  14. ^ "Most Significant Futures Works". /www.apf.org. Association of Professional Futurists. Retrieved 22 May 2021.


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