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Student Needs 2025+: Big Data, Loneliness, and Vocaloids
On March 1, UH Foresight held its Spring Gathering and the Student Needs 2025+ research teams for the first time revealed their baseline and alternative [...]
Student Needs 2025+: College News Roundup
Some excellent stories on NPR this morning about trends in higher education. 1. Big changes at the SAT This is obviously big news for college-going [...]
Student Needs 2025+: Cost as a Driver of Change in Higher Ed
"How much does a college degree cost? What a steal!" ...said pretty much no one ever. Last week, NPR's Planet Money ran a story about [...]
The Good Shepherds by Alum Seth Itzkan
Holistic Management may actually restore savannas and grasslands In a recent article in Food Tank, graduate alum Seth Itzkan ('93) discusses how a return to a more [...]
Teach the Future – An Invitation
An invitation from Dr. Bishop - I am writing to invite you to join a social movement. The movement is called Teach the Future. Its [...]
Student Needs 2025+: Who is a Student?
Before we can truly understand students needs now or in the future, we have to know who those students are. Our society has a limited [...]
Student Needs 2025+: Personal Branding
That selfie may just make or break your next job application. Whether it's LinkedIn or employers checking Facebook instead of references, we all know that [...]
Hines Interview in The Innovators
Last week in Dr. Hines’ Proseminar class, we focused on how futures and futurists are portrayed in the media, and how we, as new futurists, [...]
Introducing Student Needs 2025+
In 2025, kids don't truly "play." You might work as a Corporate Disorganizer, Unschooling Consultant, or Digital Death Manager. Your best friend might not be [...]
Foresight Jeopardy
Learning should be fun, right? And how can one resist the "gamification" trend? Indeed, we have been incorporating more experience/fun/gaming into the curriculum. We had [...]
Retired? I think not…
So now that Dr. Bishop has retired from the Futures program, what's he been up to lately? Sunning on a remote beach in Belize, sipping a Corona [...]
UH Students presenting at WFS
We are pleased as punch to announce that Jason Swanson, Kate Burgess-Macintosh and Laura Schlehuber (all current Foresight students) will be presenting at this year's World Future [...]