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held at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries to honor tional involvement.
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The second speaker for the
A&M Future of Higher
lucation Lecture Series, Dr.
ter Bishop, lectured on the
possible future of higher educa
tion and the changes it could
face in the Memorial Student
Center Tuesday.
“As a card-carrying futurist, I
can't tell you what the future of
higher education is because we
can't predict. Prediction is
impossible,” said Bishop, an
associate professor of Human
Sciences at the University of
Houston-Clear Lake. “What I
can tell you is what future could
hold for higher education.”
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If none of the things we dis
cussed happen, we’re still ready
to face fundamental change in
whatever shape it comes.”
Bishop described two types
of change people face. One,
continuous change, happens
over long periods of time.
Disruptive change happens sud
denly and is unexpected.
“Discontinuous (disruptive)
changes in our lives become the
most important forces of the
future ” Bishop said. “In the past,
there were disruptions to the air
lines, telephones, health care and
so on. In every case, these dis
ruptions were the cause of eradi
cation of a monopoly and the
appearance of competition.”
Bishop said there have been
no major disruptions for higher
education and that the alterna
tives of the future are whether
there will be changes in the edu
cation system.
“With transportational
change, we go through three
stages ” he said. “In the first stage
we’re still in the old ways, com
fortable with the ‘good old
things.’ We then move to the sec
ond stage where we are exposed
to new ideas, things become
chaotic. Fortunately, we don’t
stay in this chaotic stage, we
move on to the third level where
everything evens out.”
Bishop spoke of dematerial
ization, changing from paper-
based to computer-based office,
from mail to communication and
from schools to education.
“We have a ‘no time, no place
and no matter’ way of thinking,”
Bishop said. “Things are instan
taneous. It takes no time to send
things. We don’t care where
things take place at, meaning no
place. Since things can be dema-
terialized, there’s no matter.”
“How can we get to a new
school, where we get results, self
management, responsibility and
the influencing of others?”
Bishop said.
There will be two more lec
tures in the Future of Higher
Education series. The third will
take place Sept. 11, 2002, and
the fourth will be held Nov. 12,
2002, said Mary Broussard, pro
gram coordinator and chair of
the lecture series.
“Students are encouraged to
participate because when you
have scholars and educators at
the table, the students have valu
able input that we want to hear,”
Broussard said.
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