Restructuring the role of faculty: reducing student costs & enhancing student learning. (part two of a two-part article)

From: Change | Date: September 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

In Part I of this article (in the July/August issue), I sketched out some of the major changes that higher education may undergo in the next five to 10 years as it tries to deal with increasingly unacceptable levels of student costs, rising institutional expenses, an emphasis on student learning outcomes, and the power of new electronic technologies to enhance student learning. To deal with these forces, I described significant changes in how administrative work is organized and argued that administrative cost reduction must precede major alterations in the academic area.

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