The World Is Flat: Globalization and America

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The World Is FlatGlobalization and America

• Flat world reshapes higher
• education..

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What has caused the world to flatten?

• Globalization 1 (1492-1800)
• Globalization 2 (1800-2000)
• Globalization 3 (2000 to Present)

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Ten Forces Contributing to Flattening of the World

• The Berlin Wall Fell 11/9/89
• Netscape Went Public 8/9/95
• Work Flow Software late 1900s
• Open-Sourcing
• Outsourcing Y2K
• Offshoring
• Supply-Chaining
• Insourcing
• Informing
• The Steriods

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The Triple Convergence

• Convergence I
• Convergence II
• Convergence III

Globe model with China at the center
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America and Free Trade and The Untouchables

• Workers Who Are Special
• Workers Who Are Specialized
• Workers Who Are Anchored
• Workers Who Are Really Adaptable

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The Quiet Crisis and The Message

• Dirty Little Secrets
• American Leadership
• Emerging Third World Countries

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San Jose City College and the Flattening World

• How flat are we?
• How flat should we be?
• What should we be doing to address this issue?
• Individually
• As a College

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World Flattening Forces

• Global transformation from a manufacturing
  economy concentrated in a few countries, to a
  knowledge economy which, empowered by information
  technology and the internet.
• Knowledge travels even more effortlessly than
  money.
• Upward mobility, available to everyone through
  easily acquired formal education

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Ignorance is NOT a Bliss

• The NASULGC report noted that while foreign
  language study rose slightly in the 1990s, the
  percentage of four-year institutions that have
  language-degree requirements has dropped by
  nearly 30 points since the mid-1960s.
• http//www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2006/03/globaliz
  ation.html

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Importing Minds

• America used to make up for the shortages of
  talents by importing them, but in a flat world,
  where people can now stay home and compete with
  us, and in a post-9/11 world, where we are
  insanely keeping out many of the first-round
  intellectual draft choices in the world for
  exaggerated security reasons, we can no longer
  cover the gap. That's a key reason companies are
  looking abroad.
• Education Gap

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American high-school education is ''obsolete,''
Bill Gates

• Here is the dirty little secret that no C.E.O.
  wants to tell you they are not just outsourcing
  to save on salary. They are doing it because they
  can often get better-skilled and more productive
  people than their American workers.
• China graduates twice as many students with
  bachelor's degrees as the U.S.
• America is falling behind

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National Association of State Universities and
Colleges

• Internationalization is not the latest academic
  fad, nor is it a simple add-on to existing
  practice. It is deemed essential for schools
  survival in the years ahead.

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Cultural Differences

• Shifting political realities and the ever-present
  threat of terrorism call for increased
  understanding of and sensitivity to cultural
  differences.

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Broader Implications

• Higher education should become less of an elite
  enterprise a much larger fraction of the world
  population will need higher education.
  Furthermore, mass higher education with lower
  standards of quality will not work.
• Everybody will not need or achieve a graduate
  education, but many more people must be educated
  to a higher standard than previously required.
• Achieving this goal will require both more
  effective education of disadvantaged groups and
  social policies to enable them to pay the costs
  of higher learning.

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Implications

• People are likely to obtain higher education
  throughout life, both as an economic necessity
  and as consumer good. Many young are likely to
  make the transition from adolescence to adulthood
  in brick and mortar colleges and universities,
  but this will not be the end of their higher
  education.

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Technology

• The means of production in higher education and
  the providers of higher education will continue
  to become more diverse. More and more we are
  likely to employ technology to reduce costs and
  increase effectiveness, new providers will spring
  up to serve emerging markets, and established
  providers will diversify their services.
• http//www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/37/37145728.pdf

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Many nations have surpassed the U.S. in
educational attainment for young people under the
age of 35.
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Reality

• To maintain their standard of living, the people
  of the United States must be among the best
  educated workers in the world.

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Our Responsibility

• As educators, we must have faith in and respect
  for our students.
• We must motivate our students to pursue higher
  education.
• We must encourage social responsibility.
• We must teach respect for our world, our planet

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Responsible Globalization
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Lake Chad
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Credits

• The World is Flat Implications for Higher
  Education Planners and Leaders1
• Paul E. Lingenfelter President, State Higher
  Education Executive Officers- May 29, 2006

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The Yes Men

• A must see documentary on the dysfunctional and
  dangerous World Trade Organization (WTO)
• http//www.theyesmenmovie.com/intro.html