Speeding up on curves — from educause.edu by Bradley Wheeler
Excerpt:
Higher education faces a number of important curves, but I’ll focus first on just two:
- The finance of higher education is increasingly moving from a public to a private good, leading to increasing cost and price pressures (particularly for state-supported institutions).
- The increasing digitization of education and research favors greater scale while it also enables potential new substitutes for colleges and universities.
Also see:
- Pa. considers letting universities leave state system — from educationdive.com by Keith Button
Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow certain universities to buy their way out of the state system over time.