Talk:Bryan Alexander (futurist)

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COI template added after this article was the subject of a post at WP:COIN, see [1]. Axad12 (talk) 15:14, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"one of the first experts to envision the peak in US higher education enrollment"

I have removed this statement because the source doesn't support it. The entirety of what the source DOES say is:

By 2017 America's colleges found themselves ont he defensive because even though a college degree was useful if not essential for good earnings, colleges experienced a "tumble from grace." According to Frank Bruni's column in the New York Times, it was "higher ed's low moment." One explanation for the situation in 2018 was Bryan Alexander's notion of "peacking." In other words, American higher education had peaked, after which colleges and universities experienced dissolution and slow decline by several critical indices of instutional vitality.

There's nothing here about being "first to envision" anything (indeed nothing about enrollment, for that matter), nor even about his being an expert.

While we're here... The article carries more than a whiff of strained promotionalism.

The book received an award from the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) in 2020 sounds super impressive until you recall reading, two sentences earlier, that Alexander is one of nine members on Association of Professional Futurists (APF) international board.
The book is a "conversation about the future of higher education through the lenses of extreme weather, energy transitions and institutional resilience is sourced to a blog [2] which says Bryan’s new book, I predict, will catalyze a postsecondary ecosystem–wide conversation about how colleges and universities are both preparing for and addressing climate change. This will be a conversation about the future of higher education through the lenses of extreme weather, energy transitions and institutional resilience. So the source doesn't support the article's statement (and even if it did, blogs arent't reliable sources). I've removed this statement too, obviously.

E Eng 00:30, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]