<p>@sentimentGX4 Perhaps they are in the shorter-term, but we’re already seeing substantial droughts in the southwest–in 20-50 years, if that keeps worsening, LA might not be able to continue without rationing water.</p>
<p>Hopefully, we’ll have turned it around or developed new technology to prevent such a scenario, but it, as the worst potential event, should be considered.</p>
<p>One thing I think will happen that no one has mentioned is that there will be a shift away from rural schools to urban schools.</p>
<p>I dunno about that. People want to live in cities, but that doesn’t mean they would not go to an isolated place for college. Williams alums are pretty much all in cities, but I don’t think they or Cornell or PSU are in danger of dropping in reputation from were they are any time soon.</p>
<p>As the world becomes more and more competitive career-minded students won’t be able to achieve the same internship opportunities outside of cities.</p>
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<li><p>Terrific networks can get you internships as well. Also, if they have success, recruiters will come to you. Williams, Cornell, and PSU do not have less internship opportunities compared to peer schools located in cities.</p></li>
<li><p>Do not count on the world getting ever more competitive. Read Peter Turchin. Intra-elite competition and inequality ebb and flow through generations-long megacycles. US society and higher ed in 2030 will look a lot different from now.</p></li>
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<p>San Jose tried the MOOC idea and it failed miserably. I don’t see them increasing in popularity at all. </p>
<p>I personally think we will start seeing some schools providing more economical versions of themselves. My thought is more ‘relationship colleges’ where a Community College is set up that has arrangements for admissions and sports/extracurricular participation and even housing.</p>
<p>I do believe the government is going to massively overhaul financial aid in some way that pushes students towards the lesser expensive routes (limiting the ability to go out of state, heavily scrutinizing for-profit schools to the point many go out of business, requiring students to work off the debt if they cannot pay for it, and more of the arrangements we are seeing now where tuition can be free and you pay a percentage of your earnings back for 10-20 years.)</p>
<p>Ultimately the country club college atmosphere is going to be unsustainable. States are going to become far more wary of installing million dollar rock climbing walls. </p>
<p>Most early versions of technologies fail, but technology will definitely impact education. In the future, AI programs will function as individualized TAs.</p>
<p>I think going off to college will eventually just be an upper class, status thing. Community college / MOOC’s will be the norm.</p>
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<p>Community college or the local university already is the norm (and probably has been the norm for quite a while).</p>