This is a PowerPoint from our University College Meeting. The Global population is currently less than 12% white. The US population is currently 70% white. This is not representative of the Global population and presents an illusion of power and control. What we are experiencing in the US is the shift. It requires transitional strategies to support mental health issues and progressive agendas for the transition into a Global Economy and Connection

1. Who Will We Be?
And What Are the
Implications for Higher Ed?
America in 2040

2. What Will Society Look Like?
• Today’s teenagers will be in their 30’s
• More older people and fewer children; 1 in 5 over the age of 65 stressing social
security and medical systems. People are living longer and will require more
health and social care.
• Less white; minorities will become the majority by 2045. Only 45% of the 30-year
olds will be non-Hispanic whites in 2040 according to US Census projections.
• Immigrants will make up the record breaking share of the population.
• The costs of maintaining American standard of living will continue to rise; that
means we must be able to provide good paying jobs for at least half of the
population.
• Many of the people who live here will not have the skill set necessary to
participate in high paying jobs in the job market.
• We will be less religious and less Christian. But society will be more Islamic and
surpass Judaism as the second most popular religion.

3. Demographic-Racial Profile

4. Racial-Ethnic
Profiles

5. Where Will
We Live?
⁕ UN projects 87% of
population will live in
urban areas.
⁕ Cities will acquire
wealth, technology, and
power while rural areas
will lag behind.
⁕ Close to 2/3 of the
world’s populations will
live in cities.
Bump, 2018, Washington Post
In the USA: Half the Population Will live in 8 States…

6. Bump, 2018, Washington Post

7. What Will We Fear?
• Almost half Americans in 2040, and all 30 year-olds will have been born after 2001 or
9/11.
• Acts of domestic terrorism will be ingrained in public memory. Remember Parkland, Las
Vegas, and Orlando.
• Most Viet Nam vets will be gone. Russian cyber tampering and interference in US
elections will be remembered.
• Global average sea levels will be up a foot higher; global average temperature will be up
near the 2 degree Celsius guardrail set by the Paris Climate agreement. Summer sea ice in
the Arctic may have completely disappeared by 2040.
• Technology and human behavior may be even more intertwined. 70% of relationships
could begin online.
• Online matching companies collect lots of personal data.
• We will be faced with more complex and regulatory problems ethical problems, advanced
genetic modification, dealing with artificial intelligence, social media, and automated vehicles.
• 30 year olds in 2040 will have had their entire lives documented on social media.
• While technology will continue to create work/job efficiencies, people need jobs to work.
• Good paying jobs require that people be technically skilled.
• Competition for industries will be global.

8. What Are The Implications for Higher
Education?
• More students will be completing
degrees in less than 3 years.
• Many private colleges and
universities offering 4-year degrees
will close.
• For-profit schools will rebound and
instead of selling degrees, sell
credits.
• Based on 2018 report prepared by Angel Calderon of
Australia’s RMIT University. The report is called Massification
of Higher Education Revisited.
• Some key findings:
• Global postsecondary enrollments are projected to increase
from 214.1 million in 2015 to 594.1 million in 2040.
• The number of students enrolled in higher education
institutions in East Asia & the Pacific is projected to increase
from 69.4 million in 2015 to 257.6 million in 2040.
• In South & West Asia, similar projections are an increase of
42.4 million students in 2015 to 160.4 million in 2040.
• Latin America & the Caribbean will see higher education
enrollment going from 25.3 million in 2015 to an expected
65.6 million in 2040.
• The Arab States are projected to see an increase of
postsecondary enrollments from 10.7 million in 2015 to 22.3
million in 2040.
• Sub-Saharan Africa will see university enrollments grow from
7.4 million in 2015 to 21.7 million in 2040.
• During this same period, the number of students studying in
the U.S. and Western Europe will grow only from 37.5 million
(2015) to a projected 43.7 million in 2040.
• To put this plainly, the action in higher ed is not in the U.S.
Global Higher Education Is Expected to Grow:

9. References
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallyblount/2019/10/30/five-predictions-about-us-higher-education-in-2040/#33c0eaa37689
• Bump, P. (2018, July 12). In about 20 years half the population will live in eight states. Washington Post. Politics. Retrieved
03/12/2020 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/12/in-about-20-years-half-the-population-will-
live-in-eight-states/
• Calderon, A. (2015, September 1). What Will Higher Education Be Like in 2040? University World News. ]Online]. Retrieved
12/01/2029 from https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20150908145912643
• Daily Report Staff. (2019, May 21). The US Could Look Really Different in 2040. The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report. [Online].
Retrieved 12/01/2029 from https://www.businessreport.com/newsletters/the-us-could-look-really-different-in-2040
• Frey, W.H. (2018, March 14). The US will become ‘monority white’ in 2045, census projects. The Brookins Institution. [Online].
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2045-census-projects/
• Hamlin, D. (2016, August 1). Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. [Online]. Retrieved 12/01/2029 from
https://www.cbcfinc.org/village/2040-what-will-america-look-like/
• Kim, J. (2019, February 28). Thinking About ‘Massification of Higher Edication Revisited’. Insidehighered. Retrieved 12/17/2029
from https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/thinking-about-massification-higher-education-
revisited%E2%80%99
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https://www.axios.com/being-30-in-2040-future-new-world-us-diversity-2d3ba6db-3345-4ec4-97a8-9282fe1cee67.html
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from https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/The-US-white-majority-will-soon-disappear-forever-
13806738.php