Projects

Over the last two years, individuals and team members of the collaboratory have explored a variety of projects.

These include:

• New models of student engagement, retention and student success.

• Emerging equity frameworks for the future of higher education.

• Creation of new academic learning experiences focused on futures studies.

• Use of space in the future of higher education: Balancing virtual and physical space needs.

• Faculty views on the future of teaching and learning and deepening our understanding of faculty roles of the future.

• Student views of the future and deepening our understanding of retention and student success factors of the future.

• Emerging models of international learning.

• The future of labor relations.

• Disability justice through a futures lens.

• The future of work and its implications for academic programming.

• Emerging models of workplace organization.

• Emerging economic models for the future of higher education.

This year we've primarily focused on the following:

• Look back to look forward project (using a futures framework that suggests how we'll approach current and futures projects looks a lot like the way we've addressed challenge in the past...unless we take bigger risks and stretch our capacity).

• The future of work - and what it means for higher education.

• Centering anti-racism and equity in our thinking and visioning.

• The future of faculty roles in an evolving higher education ecosystem.

• Causal layered analysis framework to identify structures and metaphors for change.

See overviews of each of these areas in the project "tabs" above.