Update: CSU plans to cancel most in-person classes and go
online this fall, chancellor announces
The Coming Disruption
“Galloway, a Silicon Valley runaway who teaches marketing
at NYU Stern School of Business, believes the pandemic has greased the wheels
for big tech’s entrée into higher education. The post-pandemic future, he
says, will entail partnerships between
the largest tech companies in the world and elite universities. MIT@Google.
iStanford. HarvardxFacebook. According to Galloway, these partnerships will
allow universities to expand enrollment dramatically by offering hybrid
online-offline degrees, the affordability and value of which will seismically
alter the landscape of higher education. Galloway, who also founded his own
virtual classroom start-up, predicts hundreds, if not thousands, of
brick-and-mortar universities will go out of business and those that remain
will have student bodies composed primarily of the children of the one percent”.
A looming shortage of students will upend the
business model of higher education
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