EDUCAUSE | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Higher Education Transformation

Foreseeing the Future of Accreditation

ckeller — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:57:19 -0500

"This spring, in the wake of nearly two years of conflict in which the U.S. Education Department was widely perceived as trying to transform higher education accreditors into enforcers in its campaign to prod colleges to produce better student learning outcomes, an alarmist view of the future of accreditation seemed entirely in order. "

Can Universities Dream of Electric Sheepskin?: Systemic Transformations in Higher Education Organizational Models

elilly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:29:29 -0600

Charles Henry raises fundamental questions about the nature of the university now that
communication and scholarship are so ingrained in academe.

The Making of a Majority

drupal — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:55:37 -0500

"Third draft of report wins support from many members of federalhigher ed panel. but ACE chief holds out."

A Stinging First Draft

drupal — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:03:28 -0500

The article gives a summary of the 27-page preliminary Spellings report on the state of higher education according to the U.S. Department of Education. The report is considered to be primarily critical of U.S. higher education.

Designing the University of the Future

drupal — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:10:56 -0500

These authors identify transforming trends in society that are affecting the mission of universities, analyze the impact of those trends on the institutional and spatial structure of universities, and then summarize the factors that planners should be paying attention to in the future design of their institutions.

Envisioning a Transformed University

drupal — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:53:53 -0600

Change is coming, and the biggest mistake could be underestimating how extensive it will be. Rapidly evolving information technology (IT) has played an important role in expanding our capacity to generate, distribute, and apply knowledge, which in turn has produced unpredictable and frequently disruptive change in existing social institutions.

Even Universities Change

drupal — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:00:32 -0600

Industry restructured dramatically in response to IT progress, and education leaders should prepare for similar upheaval. U.S. research universities are going to change, and education leaders would be wise to begin now to direct that change. This will not be easy, but they have the advantage of being able to learn from the experience of many U.S. corporations that have reinvented themselves to respond to the market changes caused by the rapid advances in information technology (IT).

The Economic Imperative for Teaching with Technology

drupal — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:57:06 -0600

Innovative approaches to increasing classroom productivity are the best option for controlling the escalating costs of research universities. In 1997, management guru Peter Drucker predicted that in 30 years the big university campuses would be relics, driven out of existence by their inexorable increases in tuition and by competition from alternative education systems made possible by information technology (IT). Drucker overstates the case, but the nation's major research universities, both the publics and the private nonprofits, will have to make fundamental changes in the way they provide education if they are to thrive, rather than merely survive, in the coming decades.

The Technology Challenge on Campus from the Perspective of Chief Academic Officers

drupal — Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:20:51 -0600

NERCHE Briefs emphasize policy implications and action agendas from the point of view of the people who tackle the most compelling issues in higher education in their daily work lives.This brief discusses the technology challenge on campus from the perspective of the chief academic officers.