With so many adult students opinions are flying everywhere on how they might be served best and what is needed most.
Gary Berg author of Lessons From the Edge offers up these four main pressures -
1. Diminishing financial support
2. The call to server adult learners and first-generation college students
3. A need to balance a liberal arts and applied curricula
4. A subsequent necessity of maintaing an evolving institutional mission.
Fopros are in a position to address these pressures.
Like them or love them many experts credit the University of Phoenix with being the most innovative of the higher-education bunch.
UoP meets the needs of its students - it changes the criteria that accreditation agencies look at - it brings the classroom to the student - it trains practioners to be teachers - it does a lot of things that help students get an education when they might not elsewise.
And they are making money and growing.
Fopros are making an impact and they are not going away soon. Isn't it time for a dialog between the big two - fopro and nonfopros?
What do you think?
Hi Bill
This is an interesting one - and one which is being discussed everywhere. The institution I worked for (I use the term advisedly) has been going down the innovation in e-learning route to better serve its diverse student body. This has its problems for technophobes in the academic staff, of whom there are many.
Posted by: Sharon Hurley Hall | July 1, 2006 7:36 AM | Permalink to Comment