This article by Michael D. Smith, the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University, sounds to PSA website loyalists quite familiar. Many of his arguments and predictions have been stated here repeatedly over the years, and as with many online services, the pandemic is speeding up the arrival of the future, so to speak.
[gview file=”https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-University-Is-Like-a-CD-in-the-Streaming-Age-The-Atlantic.pdf”]Employers are attracted to colleges where they can recruit the best students, with the most up-to-date knowledge, delivered by the best scholars. We are now witnessing technology simultaneously disrupt each part of that loop.