Description
Fascinating and ambitious. There will be a wide and eager audience for this book. -- Martin J. Finkelstein, Seton Hall University, coauthor of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era An ambitious, original book that provides a new and much-needed general framework for detailed, fact-based forecasting of the demand for higher education over the next 15-20 years. Grawe's scholarship is well beyond sound. -- Bradley G. Lewis, Union College
About the Author
Nathan D. Grawe is the Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences at Carleton College, where he served as associate dean from 2009 to 2012.
Reviews
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.
-Bryan Alexander blog
This "birth dearth" has prompted Nathan Grawe, Professor of Economics at Carleton College, to analyze the dynamics of demographic shifts and consider how schools might prepare for a significant decrease in demand. Grawe meticulously presents his findings in his insightful and practical new book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education.
-Degree or Not Degree
Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, by Nathan Grawe, is both terrifying and worth reading if you work in, or care about, higher education. I actually gasped several times, which isn't my usual response to monographs about demographics.
-Inside Higher Ed
Grawe's book is timely, well-researched, and thought-provoking. Especially college or university presidents would be well-served to give it a thorough reading, and this reviewer certainly be sharing the book with his.
-Michael T. Catalano, Dakota Wesleyan University, Numeracy
The leading spokesperson of this emergent discourse of demographic crisis is the economist Nathan D. Grawe, whose book Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education sent a shockwave through higher education's administrative class.
-Los Angeles Review of Books
The most influential academic book of the past few years.
-Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education
Book Information
ISBN 9781421424132
Author Nathan D. Grawe
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm