Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2006) 24

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0024.005

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

The impact of technology on society has caused a paradigm shift in the basic support for higher education. Where higher education was traditionally supported as a function of government, the knowledge explosion and global economy resulting from the impact of computer and other technologies is moving the underlying support of higher education to the marketplace. There is evidence that traditional academic strategies and practices that were successful under the old paradigm may no longer be working. Twelve suggestions are offered for revolutionary changes that the academy must make in order to survive, even thrive, in the new paradigm.

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