Defining key objectives in a difficult system comprising of multiple players with differing motivations and agendas.

1. Francis Arthur
AET/508
Dr. Robert Rupnow
The Future of Community-Based Services and Education

2. Increasing number of non-traditional students
Population of older adult will stabilize
Mobilize the public, educators, civic leaders and politicians.
Educate public on available programs
Increasing cost of community based services
Technology will improve time and space barriers to learning
internet based digital classrooms or digital learning environments
 Abundance of easily available learning resources, resulting in information overload
 Flexible learning programs, available in different forms (text, online, mobile, brick and mortar class room)
Education institutions will expand across borders
Getting free education and education content will be regarded as a basic human right, with abundant
and appropriate accessible, affordable education.
Ability to craft individual programs based on multi- and inter-disciplinary learning.
Learners will learn how to, and will, take control of their own learning, , picking up relevant learning
resources from what is there and building their own learning trajectories around them
Key considerations in anticipated changes

3. Possible funding scenarios
State and Federal governments are the primary sources of funding.
Government support to kick start private funding.
Corporate funding
Crowd funding
Tax cuts
Tax holidays
Community fund raising drives
Program adoption by private and public foundations

4. The influences of diversity and the law
The dramatic transformation in the composition of the student population of America’s colleges and
universities over the past generation is unparalleled in the history of Western higher education.
Today, hundreds of colleges and universities recognize the educational value of diversity and view
student and faculty diversity as an essential resource for optimizing teaching and learning.
Attention to multicultural learning extends the meaning of personal, social, and moral growth and
improves the capacity of colleges and universities to achieve their missions.
There is now firm judicial precedent in support of efforts to ensure that our institutions, including our
colleges and universities, corporations, and the military, are diverse and inclusive.
Today, regardless of one's political viewpoint of social justice, the nation's demographic trends
demand a society in which our educational system, the academy, and industry include minorities
and women; otherwise, our economic strength and national security will decline. Industry,
government and higher education must communicate this reality more effectively or
misunderstanding of this national imperative will persist and it will be more difficult to succeed
in the diversity efforts on which our nation's and all of our citizens' future in part depends.

5. References
Hopwood I, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996); Hopwood II, 236 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 2000); Johnson, 263 F.3d 1234 (11th
Cir. 2001).
Race-Conscious Policies for Assigning Students to Schools: Social Science Research and the Supreme
Court Cases, Washington, DC: National Academy of Education, 2007, p.49
http://csis.org/files/publication/150129_Goldin_YouthWorkforce_Web.pdf