Changing Learning Environments

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Changing Learning Environments Expectations

• Demands of the Nation and Society

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Changing Learning Environments Expectations

• Distance Learning is used as a means of
  increasing access and revenue streams
• Experiential education as a means to supplement
  traditional classroom learning
• Public and Private partnerships with universities
  in order to form a mutual benefit to the
  university, agency, and community
• Public partnerships reductions in loan amounts
  for certain jobs grants and scholarships
• Transition to wired classrooms to use multi media
  learning tools

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Changing Learning Environments Expectations

• Increased emphasis on assessment and learning
  outcomes.
• Quality assurance in the 21st century will rest
  on
• Accredited institutional capacity
• Educational and organizational effectiveness
• Demonstrated results in the form of better
  learning
• Conceptions of quality wont be founded on
  tradition, but on evidence-based results-oriented
  standards.
• Standards for quality will build UP from learning
  outcomes for every student and around the
  institutions capacity and effectiveness to add
  value to a learners life through education.

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Societal Expectations About Obtaining Some Form
of Higher Education

• American society believes that a college degree
  has become a necessity for living out the
  American Dream
• People with a college degree have 60 greater
  earning capacity than those who have only
  obtained a high school degree
• More than 90 of Americans agree that Colleges
  and Universities are one of Americas most
  valuable resources
• American society believes the cost of not
  obtaining a college education is greater than the
  cost of obtaining a degree

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Americans Attitudes Regarding Higher Education
Should every High School Student Who Wants a
4-Year College Education Be Able to Attain it?
Do You Think In General the Quality of Education
is Better at Private or Public Universities?
Taken from The Chronicle of Higher Education
2003 Almanac
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Colleges Universities are One of the Most
Valuable Resources in the U.S.
Taken from The Chronicle of Higher Education
2003 Almanac
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The Environment of Higher Education

• US Political Agenda, Campus Initiatives
  Diversity, Technology, Market Structure

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Political Agenda

• Competition with the Bush Administrations No
  Child Left Behind Act
• Increased spending on homeland security measures
  both in the federal budget as well as for on
  campus compatibility to new federal security
  regulations

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Diversity(Race, Ethnicity, Gender,
Nationality)

• Colleges and Universities are expected to be
  leaders and examples of diversity
• Institutions expected to disseminate tolerance
  and understanding of societal differences by
  creating a campus model
• Example University of Michigan Affirmative
  Action Case
• Increased Scholarships and Grants on campus
• Increased programs in order to support a diverse
  student body
• Pre-college programming targeted at increasing
  students from underrepresented groups attendance
  and retention at colleges and universities

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Technology

• Changing rapidly and exponentially
• Consumers demanding cutting edge technology in
  and outside the classroom
• Demand for real time answers to questions Any
  Time, Any Place
• Online course registration financial aid
  registration as well as residential life issues
• Long term reduction in cost to the university
  (initial investment usually high)
• Distance Learning
• Corporations demand for knowledge workers that
  are technologically savvy

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Changing Market Structure of Higher Education

• Subject to external forces that impact other
  industries in America including the economy
• Competitive forces include new players in the
  higher education marketplace proprietary
  institutions professional schools
• Distance Learning Institutions University of
  Phoenix defying the original brick and mortar
  vision of a college
• Compete for better students and faculty
• Competition for private grants in order to
  further their research mission and support their
  faculty

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Changing Market Structure of Higher Education

• Focus on core competencies of colleges and
  universities in order to create a brand name
• Competitive forces force higher education to
  search for ways to improve their service delivery
  in order to remain competitive in the market
  place
• Higher Education must respond to demands society
  projects and their own customers in order to
  transform itself into an all-inclusive entity
  that provides superior services and learning to
  students, parents, and in turn, future employers

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References

• Society for College and University Planning
  July 22, 2003 James Duderstadt, Professor
  Emeritus, University of Michigan
• National Center for Education Statistics,
  Projections of Education Statistics to 2013,
  32nd Edition, October 2003
• Same Classroom, Different Price Chronicle of
  Higher Education, 9/19/03
• Boomers, Gen-X-ers, Millenials. Understanding
  New Students EDUCAUSE, July/August 2003
• Smith, Peter. Curricular Transformation Why we
  need it.How to Support it.Change,
  January/February 2004
• Scott, Geoff. Effective Change Management in
  Higher Education, Educause Review,
  November/December 2003, V. 38, Number 6
• United States Census Bureau
• The College Board
• Dealing with the Future NOW. Principles for
  Creating a Vital Campus in a Climate of
  Restricted Resources Change Magazine,
  July/August 2003
• US Census