The major challenges of undergraduate education today are how to do more with less, how to educate a diverse group of students, and how to update our methods of delivering education so that it prepares people for a rapidly changing world. We live in a world where information is at our fingertips. Understanding, analysis and creative problem solving is at a premium. At a time when undergraduate college degrees have become a necessity for success in today's world, governments are reducing their educational subsidies.
Limited resources are a fact of each business sector.
Tradition is not going to carry industries or academic institutions. Students are more diverse. A larger percentage of the population is attending school and they are not following the traditional paths of high school, college, job. We will all need to retrain several times to keep up with our rapidly changing world. People in diverse situations will need specific types of training.