The Chronicle: Rethink Higher Education for a Changing World, Best-Selling Author Tells Conference-Goers
Colleges need to refocus their missions in order to help American students compete in a global economy, Thomas L. Friedman, the best-selling author and New York Times columnist, told a standing-room-only crowd of university officials at the “Campus of the Future” meeting here this week.
Mr. Friedman, the author of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, entertained the audience of more than 4,000 during an hour-long speech with anecdotes from the reporting of his book and personal stories about his own encounters with globalization. Speaking without notes, he told the joint meeting of three higher-education associations that China and India will challenge the role of the United States as a superpower in the 21st century, and that the United States will “not win by default.”
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