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Challenges to non-traditional education

Challenges to non-traditional education. With special emphasis on the Arts and Sciences. General Social Trends:. Hyper-industrialism large populations increase of technology and innovation increase in the division of labor growth of government and corporate bureaucracies

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Challenges to non-traditional education

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  1. Challenges to non-traditional education With special emphasis on the Arts and Sciences

  2. General Social Trends: • Hyper-industrialism • large populations • increase of technology and innovation • increase in the division of labor • growth of government and corporate bureaucracies • decline of primary groups (family and community) • loss of social bond

  3. Three Challenges for Arts and Sciences • Increasing competition for students • Increasing career orientation of both students and universities • Maintaining standards and quality

  4. Competition for Students • Colleges and universities overbuilt in the 1960s and 1970s. • State funding comes mainly from enrollment and tuition • Declining pool of traditional students • Only a small percentage of this pool can do traditional college level work

  5. Competition for Students • Internet and telecommunications technology in extended education • Allows traditional universities to move into extended education “full time”

  6. Increasing Career Orientation • Student evidence • Surveys • Majors • University evidence • proliferation of career majors • decline of liberal arts

  7. Standards and Quality • The imperfect market model applied to higher education: • The student as consumer • The university as a business

  8. Shaping Arts and Sciences • Insisting on resources on a par with more career oriented colleges • Promoting the arts and sciences as the heart of the university, and the soul of our society • Holding general education students to acceptable standards of writing, reading, critical thinking skills and familiarity with the culture

  9. Shaping Arts and Sciences • Tailoring traditional arts and science courses for career oriented majors • Creation of a general arts and sciences (or perhaps liberal arts) degree programs • Strong focus on general education • Refine a merit system that strongly emphasizes quality teaching

  10. Shaping Arts and Sciences • Getting heavily involved in internet instruction and integrating this technology into both the classroom and forms of non-traditional learning as well • Teaching circles • Web incentives and distance learning • Technological support

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