The Crisis Higher Education Needs | Higher Ed Gamma
The pandemic, the financial crisis and the reckoning over race have precipitated a crisis that higher education needs to have. By exposing and intensifying long-standing problems involving access, affordability, equity and quality, the current emergency is forcing colleges and universities to confront problems that higher education has evaded and responsibilities that it has shirked. Sometimes, institutions need a crisis. Often, it’s only a crisis that can jolt an institution out of its lethargy and complacency, alter existing mind-sets, and make stakeholders demand meaningful change. I ...