In this episode of The Green Room, host Jonathon Platt sits with Dr. Mary Landon Darden, president of Higher Education Innovation, LLC, and Dr. Ray Perryman, president and CEO at The Perryman Group. The group unpacks the focus of The Baylor Line’s article It’s a New World – skyrocketing graduate enrollment and what the future looks like with AI.
Their conversations dive deep into the layers of what’s driving the surge in enrollments today – a pattern seen before with the inception of computers and the Internet, but now amplified with shifting job markets and an unpredictable political culture.
Perryman and Darden examine how universities should evolve past their traditional degree offerings and credentials.
“If you look at the American education system and most global education systems, they’re a product of whatever era that country had its industrial revolution. They tend to evolve out of that, and ours happened to be in the era of the assembly line.” – Dr. Ray Perryman
The gist: AI isn’t good or bad for jobs and education, but there are still lots of questions. Tune in as we navigate through a time of uncertainty and innovation.
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Credits:
Our theme music is “Short Circuit” by Ryan James Carr, with a special guest appearance by – yes – Abner McCall.
Our episodes are made possible by a grant from the Eula Mae & John Baugh Foundation.
And special thanks to our managing producer, Nina Um, and digital editor Kassidy Tsikitas
