ERIC ED380048: The Changing Environment in Higher Education.

	ERIC ED380048: The Changing Environment in Higher Education.
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	This paper describes the national demographic and
	economic context of higher education and offers
	interpretations of what it portends, in order to
	illuminate the changing environment of higher education.
	The discussion focuses on: (1) demographic trends, such
	as the projected annual enrollment growth in the 1990s of
	1.2 percent and the increasing heterogeneity of the
	student body; (2) fiscal trends, such as flat or
	declining public revenues per full-time equivalent
	student, widespread tax limitation movements, and growth
	in private support; and (3) cost trends, such as
	consistently rising costs for instruction,
	administration, and research since the early 1960s, which
	have outstripped prices common to other sectors.
	Temporizing responses, or even neglect, might be the best
	answer to problems that stem from short-term, ephemeral
	perturbations in long-term trends, but substantial
	changes in institutions and systems may be needed to
	address problems engendered by fundamental shifts in the
	underlying demographic and economic forces. Higher
	education's institutions and systems will need to be
	substantially restructured to effectively serve society's
	future needs and expectations with the limited resources
	likely to be available to them in the future. (JDD)

	Date Published: 2014-10-12 08:55:15
	Identifier: ERIC_ED380048
	Item Size: 58330980
	Language: english
	Media Type: texts

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