The Shape of Higher Ed Yet to Come Past Present The Shape of Higher Ed Yet to Come: Prediction 1:  The higher education landscape will become even more diverse than it is today. Prediction 2:  The fixed fifteen-week semester will increasingly coexist with other options. Prediction 3:  The learning experience will become more student-centered and less course-centric. Prediction 4:  Curricula will be optimized. Prediction 5:  Mentoring will occupy a greater role in faculty members’ professional lives. Prediction 6:  Campuses will embrace technology in ways that are very different from today’s PowerPoint slides or digitized lectures. Prediction 7:  The major, the minor, and the degree will no longer be the “be-all” and “end-all” of higher education. Prediction 8:  The higher ed system will be structured differently. Prediction 9:  Institutions will aggressively pursue secondary revenue sources. Prediction 10:  Pressures for change will intensify.   In larger state universities, disciplines that could not show immediate usefulness were phased out in the years 2017 to 2022 so that the schools did not lose their eligibility for FSA loans. Literature, psychology, the arts, music, philosophy, the classics, political theory and sociology majors were pulling down the overall scores of these colleges, with the low employment rate of graduates “in their field” and low starting salaries. To solve this problem, these departments were first scaled back and, then, many were eliminated by the 20s and 30s.”- http://www.evolllution.com/program_ planning/higher-education-in- america-2064-goodbye-humanities- hello-business-101/ “Fifty years from now, wiser consumers and globalization will create the market conditions that will reward post-secondary institutions for ethical behavior. Those entities that will be most successful will be those who provide opportunities to more people that are high in quality, flexible and affordable. Fifty years from now we can all hope that such success will perpetuate a new breed of for- profits that lead the industry, both traditional and non- traditional, through innovation, smart business and integrity to the benefit of all”- http://www.evolllution.com/co mmunity_programs/higher- education-50-years-from-now- a-for-profit-perspective/ We also may see private sector institutions setting up partnerships in universities. (we are starting to see this already) How will library provision work if in future only books on "priority subjects" may be purchased with public money and the rest put into storage to make space on the shelves? Or pulped to save public money being spent on the storage.