Abstract

Higher education today faces many challenges. Adequately opening the doors of social mobility for students from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds. Rising tuition that has resulted in an entire generation of students emerging from college with student loan debt that can seem insurmountable. Declining state support of public institutions. Increased calls for institutions to contribute to local economies through job creation and workforce development. A growing administrative class in higher education that often only adds to bureaucracies and mounting costs instead of alleviating them. An increasing reliance on adjunct professors to teach core subjects and dwindling numbers of tenure-stream faculty. Urgent needs to comply with governmental regulations-often in areas, like Title IX, where institutions are virtually guaranteed to upset someone, no matter what they do. ...

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Article

Publication Date

2016

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