Just got out of our morning meeting, in which the chancellor of our institution made some remarks including this : "higher education faces a battle for relevance."
Serious question: in what way is this happening? Is it really true that higher education is increasingly seen as irrelevant to regular folks?
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I suspect it comes from this:
http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/report.pdf#search=%22spelling%20commission%20on%20higher%20education%2C%20report%22
At our first faculty convocation, the president of our university gave some sobering comments about how he believes that the writers of this report do not necessarily understand the mission and operations of the small liberal arts college. I'm not sure what your chancellor might have been thinking of in particular, but this report does leave a lot to be chewed over. It also presents interesting insight into how those on the "outside" might view us.
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