The Future of American Universities
The 2025 Faculty Senate Colloquium Series
The Future of American Universities:
Politics, Finance, and the Value of Higher Education
U.S. higher education has been faced significant challenges for many years, and those challenges are likely to increase. We must think broadly, deeply, and creatively about the headwinds facing colleges and universities. A select group of thought leaders will visit Penn for discussions on three critical topics:
- the political/policy challenges facing higher education,
- the value of higher education (by which we mean both the dollars-and-cents cost and its value more generally in creating an informed citizenry and ‘better’ society), and
- the future: if and how the fundamentals of higher education will change.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
4:00pm to 5:30pm ET
Kleinman Energy Forum
Fisher Fine Arts Library, 4th Floor
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Agora, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
4:30pm – 6:00pm ET
Kleinman Energy Forum
Fisher Fine Arts Library, 4th Floor