Future of Higher Education and Student Learning

Summary:

Facing the Future:  Creating a Vital Campus in a Time of Restricted Resources

[State of Higher Education and the Future]

 Alan E. Guskin, President Emeritus, Antioch University System Administration

Opening Address, Enterprise 2006,

May 24, 2006,

Chicago, Illinois

 

Abstract:

All indications show that the next decade will be a period of restricted fiscal resources for most colleges and universities while expenses continue to rise.   Perhaps the most critical challenges we face are how we can enhance student learning and maintain or enhance the quality of faculty and staff work-lives in a time of limited resources.

 

Notes:

Alan Guskin described the higher education world in which we work as one experiencing demographic shifts, external accountability demands, reduced financial support, mistrust of professionals, a plethora of new technologies and the accompanying demand for its use, and the growing need to provide global perspectives to student learning.

 

Guskin suggested that we need to create new institutional forms to respond to the changing societal realities and find solutions for dealing with fiscal issues that focus on enhanced student learning and enhanced quality of faculty and staff work-lives.  We must not simply raise tuition.