To Survive, Does Higher Education Need to Embrace Change?

By Julia Lawrence. The idea has been expressed in many ways over the previous several years – overhaul, reform, revolution, and now a reboot – but however it is put, the facts it describes are still the same: the American higher education system is in need of some drastic and immediate changes if it is to continue to remain competitive in the global marketplace and produce graduates ready and willing to become the pillars that support and grow the nation’s economy.
Although there are a number of challenges facing the higher education system in this country, according to Steven Bell writing in Library Journal, the three mains hurdles seem to be the ever-increasing cost of attending college, the stagnation that keeps many universities from breaking with the status quo, and a failing primary and secondary education system that leaves its graduates unprepared for college-level academic work. Read more...