Paths to the Future of Higher Education

"The rapid change that higher education is undergoing is impacting all of the core mission elements: teaching and learning, research, service, and engagement with the external world (e.g., community engagement and health care delivery).

Navigating this environment requires understanding of the underlying dynamics, with particular attention to how the issues are affecting the directions higher education will take.

The main focus of the book is on teaching and learning (Section 3), with Sections 1 and 2 providing important context for understanding dynamics affecting how we can achieve our goals in teaching and learning.

The section on "Institutional Culture, Structure, and Public Engagement" addresses issues such as Promotion and Tenure, interdisciplinary collaboration, dissemination and archiving of research outcomes and data, student engagement with community development, and evaluation of research projects.

Section 2 on "Diversity, Eq