Recession Amnesia: Prospects for New England Higher Education

Autor/in	Halfond, Jay A.
Titel	Recession Amnesia: Prospects for New England Higher Education
Quelle	In: New England Journal of Higher Education, 24 (2010) 3, S.29-30 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-5978
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Governance; Enrollment; Endowment Funds; Research Universities; State Colleges; Financial Exigency; Financial Problems; Economics; Financial Support; Undergraduate Study; Tuition; Paying for College; Educational Finance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Einschulung; Stiftungsvermögen; Forschungseinrichtung; Finanzielle Härte; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Finanzielle Förderung; Grundstudium; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Studienfinanzierung; Bildungsfonds
Abstract	Universities are organized to assume uninterrupted growth in enrollments and endowments, steady public funding, an annual ability to inflict tuition hikes on students and their families, everlasting degree programs, vast building operations and permanent commitments to a senior professoriate. Lacking an agile and responsive governance structure, and with fixed costs mounting in a massive physical plant and labor-intensive enterprise, the modern university is brittle when suddenly confronted with changing realities. Academe has trouble responding to wake-up calls--and by the time colleges and universities mobilize with imaginative ideas for new initiatives, it is too late to make a difference. This article discusses how higher education in New England can break the syndrome of recession amnesia. The author emphasizes that the key to the competitiveness of individual institutions, the region and the American academic system as a whole is to maintain their distinctive features, their vitality and connection to the world, and their focus on the myriad needs of students. In order to cure recession amnesia, higher education should recognize their lack of historical perspective, while trying to make sense of their strengths and vulnerabilities in an otherwise perplexing world ahead. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	New England Board of Higher Education. 45 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111. Tel: 617-357-9620; Fax: 617-338-1577; e-mail: info@nebhe.org; Web site: http://www.nebhe.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10