Leading Through Times of Uncertainty: The Future of Higher Education, Work, and Kinesiology

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Kinesiology Review

Volume

10

Issue

4

Publisher

Human Kinetics, Inc.

Publication Date

10-30-2021

First Page

369

Last Page

371

Abstract

Times are always a bit uncertain, and our initial plan for the 2021 American Kinesiology Association (AKA) Annual Workshop was to focus on challenges and opportunities facing higher education on the horizon. We were to address matters such as the pending enrollment cliff (Kline, 2019), which is not so much pending as it is upon us—with particular impact in the Northeast and Midwest United States. We would consider the Fourth Industrial Revolution whereby the digital, physical, psychological, and social features of work and the broader human experience are merging and reconfiguring in disruptive ways (Schwab, 2015). Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, for example, encapsulate the great potential we see for the future of work, with newly found efficiencies also bringing discomfort about their potential for widening societal inequities. We would discuss how to strengthen the standing of kinesiology in an ever-competitive higher education context, how to attract and meet the needs of a more diverse student body, and generally attempt to project what our world might look like a decade or more down the road. We had crystalized this plan in February 2020.

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