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ERIC Number: EJ547656
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-5748
Speculations about the Increasingly Indeterminate Future of Higher Education in the United States.
Kerr, Clark
Review of Higher Education, v20 n4 p345-56 Sum 1997
Comments on seven "propositions" about the future of higher education made by Howard Bowen in 1989, including observations about the capacity to predict change, the value ascribed to higher education by the public, characterization of higher education as a growth industry, need for improvement in higher education's quality, and deterioration of academic life. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Social Values, Teacher Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bowen (Howard R)