Higher education is how nations develop their brainpower. For a variety of reasons, the need for higher education will increase. The demand for education is worldwide. Corporations, government and international organizations are calling for a more prominent role for education, from basic literacy to lifelong professional education. The percentage of the US population seeking post-secondary education has grown steadily during the 20th century.
Demand is likely to increase.
America seems poised on the edge of extremely rapid enrollment growth. Today's increasing demand for higher education emerges from economic aspirations and from the knowledge that a college degree now provides a greater marginal increase in economic security than it ever has. In total, the demand for higher education is greater than most of our states and local governments can accommodate under existing campus-based models. Much of this growth relates to the changes that technology has brought to the workplace. Sixty-five percent of all U.S. workers use some type of information technology in their jobs.