1. HIGHER EUCATION
2000-PRESENT
Instructor: Dr. David Hinton
Course: EDU 657

2. Demographics and Diversity
 the changing profile of
students:
 Post world war
changed the way
institutions enrolled
new students.
 Students were no
longer seventeen years
old as an average
enrollment age.
 Universities were
building bigger
institutions to
accommodate the rise
of student enrollment

3. STUDENT PROFILE: “non
traditional students”
 Thelin (2010) illustrates two end result for
campus administrators (pg. 326):
 1. campus administrators pay close attention to
prospective students and their parents in order to
better serve the mass public with their needs but
most importantly with curricula.
 2. Colleges are beginning to recognize its diverse
enrollments; from student of average age, post
war veterans, returning, and as well older
students

4. Student profile cont’d:
 A new era of students:
 Fred Buining (2008) highlights that students are becoming more and
more aware of their own future therefore they are taking control in
terms of choosing their career path. Stduents are choosing a diverse
path in their career field, thus it is reflecting towards institutions
catering to student needs.
 Fred Buining (2008) mentions three important aspects that universities
should approach higher education:
1. Vast practice: education should work as a community to inspire the
vast population with pressing issues that are important to higher
education such as hosting seminars, conferences, and conventions to
help create a mass effect on the community for higher education.
2. Using the community as a role model so that institutions are able to
bring in community speakers to help the community become involved
within the higher education community.
3. Work in multidisciplinary ways so that institutions are able to create
innovative ways to help support issues that are important to
institutions, furthermore, pushing across departments issues that are
relevant to an institutions.

6. Fenske and Scott (1978) student
ratio:
 Fenske and Scott (1978) student profile in
Student ration 1959- the 20th century included different factors
present that has now become a norm in university
attendees; they illustrated contributing
factors such as white males and
1960 1959 females, poor families were showing
increase number in attendees versus a six
1966 2008-2009 percent increase from wealthy population
(pg. 15).
2009-2010
 Ledermen (2012) illustrated that in the time
of economic recession enrollment in higher
education took a dip in 2008 but as
8% America slowly recovers so did enrollment
in higher education, furthermore, “the data
show enrollments growing yet again, but at
30% 14% a somewhat slower pace, with about 21.6
million students enrolled in fall 2010, up
2.8 percent from a shade under 21 million
in 2009” (n.a.)
19%
29% 

7. INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS:
 Intercollegiate sports is no
stranger to universities
because school spirit
along with school
colors, and alma
mater, are a part of a
university’s image to lure in
enrollment.
 Thelin (2010) illustrates
that intercollegiate sports
became an attraction for
the public domain, in
addition, “the regional
trends in attendance and
national championships
signaled a redistribution of
college sports success”
(pg. 208).

8. Intercollegiate sports cont’d:
 Will Hunn (2011) illustrates that
intercollegiate is important to
many institutions regardless the
cost because it creates
popularity and increase in
enrollment, in
addition, “Presidents also see
indirect benefits stemming from
athletics success, including
enhancing school spirit and
raising the profile of the
institution with regard to the
general public, public
officials, and other university
presidents”.
 More often schools are becoming
recognized by their football
teams, thus, linking sports to a
schools success
(Thelin, 2010, pg. 209).

9. Holding on to school spirit:
 Garner (1960) wrote about his experience
with intercollegiate
sports, highlighting, “these things were co-
operation; striving for individual excellence;
self-discipline; the subordination of self;
and best of, winning with the rules” (n.a.).
 Intercollegiate sports as illustrated by
Garner gave students a sense of self-
disciplinary, but sports also introduce what
Thelin (2010) highlights as, “…limits of
acceptable practice” (pg. 209)
whereas, many college officials were
allowing for coaches run rampant and local
businesses were introducing “commercial
potential of intercollegiate football” (pg.
2010). In addition many local businesses
push for the commercialization of football
and not recognizing the damage of the
great depression in which, Americans did
not have funds to buy tickets for
sports, thus by 1935 college football
became a booming success once
again, but many college officials focused
more on promoting big sports success
instead of its excesses (Thelin, 2010, pg.
211), which also played as a downfall for
many college sports.

10. Conclusion
 Higher Education is always evolving because the student
interest is different, so as new trends arise so do new
institutions, Buining (2008) highlighted this in his
segment, also indicating that in order for universities to keep
up to speed with such trends, institutions should be assessing
their methods from within the institution and branching out to
the community so that there is a sense of urgency about
higher education, but most importantly a sense of security for
higher education.
 Moyen, Edwards, & Thelin (n.a.) writes, “One theme that
pervades higher education in the United States in the second
half of the twentieth century is that of a "managerial
revolution“…Maintaining and bolstering widespread trust in
postsecondary education will be the central determinant in
present and future discussions about ways in which
Americans support higher education”.

11. References:
 Buining, F. (2008). Complex Change in Higher Education. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOEbOC89pg
 Fenske, R., & Scott, C. (1973). The changing profile of college students. Retrieved from
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED088393.pdf
 Jessica , S. (2011, February 10). Jessica schwartz - ut austin - student video profile. Retrieved
from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0nOcofvctU
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http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/akron_law_cafe/2011/10/affordability-of-public-higher-
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 Gardner, F. (1960). The place of intercollegiate athletics in higher education: Hold that tiger!. The
Journal Of Higher Education, 31(7), 364-368. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307
 Lederman, D. (2012, March 28). Enrollments grow, but more slowly. Retrieved from
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/28/us-data-show-rate-enrollment-growth-
slowing- 2009-10
 Thelin, J. R. (2011). A history of American higher education (2nd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
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