Serving the New Majority Student

Working from Within to Transform the Institution

Eric Malm, Marguerite Weber

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781475836028
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

Much of higher education was originally designed to meet the needs of full time 18-22 year-old students who enter directly from high school. However, the New Majority of our students are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and have significant adult responsibilities outside of the classroom. The New Majority Student: Working from Within to Transform Higher Education is a call to transform colleges and universities to meet the academic and student experience needs of New Majority students and for adult educators to become advocates, allies, and resources for needed reforms. Book contributors, including faculty, staff and administrators at public, private and community colleges, provide insights for this transformation. The bookutilizes a business perspective to academic transformation, providing a guide to how universities can redefine and restructure their education product to meet student needs. Taking a Human Centered Design approach, the contributors provide frameworks and examples of how institutions can reallocate technology, effort (internal, external, student, faculty) and finances to reimagine programs and ensure long term institutional health.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Serving the New Majority Student
• Higher Educational Offerings, Business Models, and the New Majority
• Defining Your University Product
• Student-Centered Design
• Efforts to Transform Learning: Rethinking Roles and Structures
• Administrative Redesign: Human-Centered Design Applications for Sustaining Change
• Planning and Executing: Navigating Change at New Majority–Serving Institutions
• Appendix
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors