CONSIDERING THE FUTURE OF LAND GRANT ERGONOMICS EDUCATION

摘要

Current discussions of challenges and weaknesses of higher education are a source of tension in the earlydecades of the 21st Century. These discussions reflect the public role and impact of higher education in theearly 20th Century with the growth of the land grand university model. Changing social dynamicsregarding college-going populations, as well as agricultural and engineering innovations from 1900-20,help to provide context for the role of human factors and ergonomics training for public higher educationand workforce productivity. Attempts to forecasting new models of higher education based on societalchanges from 2000-20 are problematic, as suggested by agricultural changes from 1900 – 2000. The futureof land grant (and human factors and ergonomics) education requirements are tied to our understanding ofdifferent historical models of higher education, and demands for matching employment skills and jobprospects for new generations of economic, societal and technical challenges.