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  • Changing Demographics in Higher-Ed

    06/12/2006 4:00:22 PM PDT · by G. Stolyarov II · 182+ views
    TheBizofKnowledge ^ | June 11, 2006 | Dr. Bill Belew
    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 serve adult learners and first-generation college students 3. A need to balance 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...