Flex or Fail: Five Important Trends for Higher Education to Manage

From Business Officer, this article by Paul Jansen and Debby Bielak reports on research conducted to identify opportunities and trends affecting higher education and then shares brief vignetes about how each of several institutions is addressing the one or more of the trends. The trends are "Growth of Digital and Other Nontraditional Students," "Price-Productivity Squeeze," "New Paradigm Competitors," "Globalization," and "Answering to Accountability." The vignettes ceom from the state of Montana (Centralized Support for Distance Learning), the State University of New York-Geneseo (Meeting Demands Despite the Cost), Calvin College (Building on an International Base), and King's College (Answering to Accountability).