Academic Departments
Subtitle: How they Work, How they Change
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Graduate School of Education and Human Development, the George Washington University
Published: December 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780787957148
Subjects: Education; Higher; Administration - General; College And University Administration; Education / Teaching; Educational Policy & Reform; Education / Administration; Education-Educational Policy & Reform; Education-Higher; United States; Universities and colleges
First sentence: Enormous changes are coming for higher education, some of which we discuss in the following section: increased economic pressures, opportunities for collaboration with business and industry, the rise of new higher education providers, public concerns about student access and learning, the potential of technology to alter boundaries of time and space, the creation of a global network of information and commerce through the World Wide Web, shifting student demographics and attitudes, and changes in academic belief systems about learning and teaching.