Higher education is confronted by four horsemen.
They are quality, cost, access, and productivity. Couched in vivid images of apocalypse and renaissance, Heterick emphasized the need for dramatic collaborative action on the part of leaders in education and industry for the purpose of building a national learning infrastructure. Increasingly research has become freed of the constraints of time and place and has become a shared, collaborative national, even international, venture. We have similarly built a teaching infrastructure. This infrastructure works in support of faculty members and teachers.