Strategic Choices for the Academy : How Demand for Lifelong Learning Will Re-Create Higher Education

This book is a must-read for higher education administrators and faculty in any discipline. Beyond distance and life-long learning, it is the actual method of instruction in every discipline that will change - worldwide. This book covers both the change in faculty behavior that will be required as well as the emerging organizational structure of the university of the future. - James B. Appleberry, president, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC This new book shows how the world's increasing dependence on lifelong access to new knowledge is transforming the landscape of higher education and forcing the academy to rethink virtually all of its systems and traditions. Building on the strategic planning and management concepts set out in their previous books, the authors equip readers with a clear understanding of the challenges and options before them and equally clear strategies for reaching out to new learners, restructuring administrative systems, redefining faculty roles, and repositioning these institutions to survive in the information age.Part One: The Bases for Change1. Pressures on Higher Education in the Information Age2. Strategic Change in the Wake of Controversy3. Cultivating Internal; Readiness for Change4. Analyzing Global Responses to the New Learning NeedsPart Two: Strategic Response to the Need for Learning5. Serving the Lifelong Learner6. Creating a Flexible Concept of Academic Organization7. Achieving Strategic Fit Between Strengths and Opportunities8. Expanding Channels for Instructional DeliveryPart Three: Re-Creating Higher Education Through Strategic Choices9. The New Learning Infrastructure10. The Faculty, Facilities, and Administration of the Future11. Partnerships to Produce and Transfer Knowledge12. The Academy of the Future; Scenarios and Models13. Achieving Strategic TransformationDaniel James Rowley is professor of Management at the University of Northern Colorado. Herman D. Lujan is the former president of the University of Northern Colorado.Michael G. Dolence consults with higher education institutions, systems, associations and vendors nationally.