"The Coming Disruption"
May 19, 2020
Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at NYU--and who was really right, early, on how ridiculous WeWork's plans were--provides his thoughts on the future, post virus, of higher education.
The interview is interesting, but I'm skeptical of his main prediction that the Ivies and Ivy-equivalent institutions will grow tremendously, as in "In ten years, it’s feasible to think that MIT doesn’t welcome 1,000 freshmen to campus; it welcomes 10,000." MIT and the Ivies could have expanded enrollment a lot any time in the past 30 or 40 years. They didn't. While he discusses a bit why they didn't, I think he underestimates the power of the forces that keep those enrollments down.
Related: "Post-pandemic, four-year colleges need to change — or face extinction".