Begins by examining the forces pushing higher education toward greater competition, then explores the implications of the resulting changes. Attempts to identify the risks if institutions and policy makers are slow to respond. (EV)

Explores how, as higher education faces new financial realities together with escalating demands for more accountability, a call to reclaim the soul of higher education and with it, the soul of democracy, will require significant institutional and personal transformations. (EV)

Explores how U.S. higher education's number one position over the last century is threatened as institutions struggle to deal with rising expectations from students and employers, which are producing chronic fiscal problems feared to be eroding the quality of teaching and research. (EV)

Explores how, as state dollars decrease, public research universities will require students to pay more of their educational costs, thus becoming part of a hybrid university--an institution with many traditions and functions within the public realm, but other characteristics in line with private institutions. (EV)

This article is the epilogue to a new book, "The Third Century: Twenty-Six Prominent Americans Speculate on the Educational Future," which contains original essays written for Change Magazine by leading educators and administrators. (LBH)

The development of distance learning seems assured by students' needs, faculty recognition of its effectiveness, and institutional efficiencies. While the United States is not likely to have a British-style open university, it has many institutions developing new ways to serve students, combining new technologies with new ways of teaching and…

Four reasons for the value of a liberal arts education are discussed in terms of the liberal arts versus vocational educational controversy. (KE)

Increasingly, graduate schools and schools of continuing and professional studies are offering postbaccalaureate certificates, credentialing programs that reflect new demands in the workplace and global markets. The certificate programs lead to or supplement a graduate degree, recognize mastery in a professional or technical field, or focus on…

Examines how Wall Street's view of technology-mediated higher education as a rapidly growing market is prompting many colleges and universities to consider a nonprofit/for-profit hybrid model that includes a separate for-profit entity for electronic learning. A table identifies factors influencing the decision to create a for-profit entity, and…

The article describes the organization of German higher education; summarizes current issues in German higher education (university overcrowding, length of study, and faculty and scientific manpower); and identifies particular issues related to reunification including revising and updating the curriculum, "harmonizing" student-faculty…

Uses 9 years of applications of award finalists for the Hesburgh Award for innovation in undergraduate teaching to examine leading-edge efforts to improve teaching and learning in 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. Describes efforts in three major categories: improving teaching, redesigning courses, and changing the learning environment of…

Over several decades, the field of higher education law has evolved from an informal "interest" to a complex and sophisticated legal specialty. Specific trouble spots for college and university attorneys can be anticipated, with written policies establishing channels of communication concerning conflict resolution, who can seek legal advice, and…

Schools do not exist in a vacuum and neither do people. That fact is propelling the U.S. toward a national policy on lifelong learning. Provisions of the Senate Lifelong Learning Bill are included. (LBH)

Business and industrial leaders in America believe that higher education is now in the same position business found itself in 15 years ago regarding the technological revolution. While the pressures are from different sources, needs to increase productivity and create more flexible structures are parallel for both higher education and business.…

Noting continued need for high quality graduate schools to teach students to specialize and to expand their perspectives, the author comments on a new academic provincialism, characterized by hostility to research and the courting of student popularity, that threatens the future of quality graduate education. (JT)