Demographics and the Demand for Highe..., Nathan D. Grawe
Demographics and the Demand for Highe..., Nathan D. Grawe
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Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

Author: Nathan D. Grawe

Narrator: BJ Harrison

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/16/2019

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Synopsis

Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest—traditional higher education strongholds—expect to lose five percent of their college-aged populations between now and the mid-2020s.

In Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, Nathan D. Grawe has developed the Higher Education Demand Index (HEDI), which relies on data from the 2002 Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) to estimate the probability of college-going using basic demographic variables. Analyzing demand forecasts by institution type and rank while disaggregating by demographic groups, Grawe provides separate forecasts for two–year colleges, elite institutions, and everything in between. The future demand for college attendance, he argues, depends critically on institution type. While many schools face painful contractions, for example, demand for elite schools is expected to grow by more than fifteen percent in future years.

Essential for administrators and trustees who are responsible for recruitment, admissions, student support, tenure practices, facilities construction, and strategic planning, this book is a practical guide for navigating coming enrollment challenges.

About Nathan D. Grawe

Nathan D. Grawe is the Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences and a professor of economics at Carleton College, where he served as associate dean from 2009 to 2012. He is the author of The Agile College and Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryan

Over the past two weeks I've read a book about the future of American higher ed, and want to recommend it very highly.  It might be the most important book on the subject published this year. The title is Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, and the author is Nathan D. Grawe, an econ......more

Goodreads review by Douglas

Competently done, but a bit dull.......more

Goodreads review by Marks54

This book was surprisingly interesting and informative. The author is an economist and academic administrator at Carleton College (an elite 4 year college in Northfield Minnesota). Grawe reports on his studies of the relationship of demographic trends and the “demand” for higher education. What is th......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn

Clayton Christensen famously predicted that 50% of colleges would close in a decade. As if on cue, six New England colleges closed in three years. And yet, in view of the constant construction on campuses across the country, one wonders whether administrators are blithely unaware of and unconcerned......more

Goodreads review by Chris

This is an excellent and timely text on the nature of America’s higher-education system, specifically, looking at how it may be sustained as demographic growth changes both in terms of rate and spatial distribution. The text was written before the 2018-current (circa mid-2021) US-China trade war (a......more