EDU 657 EDU657 WEEK 6 FINAL PAPER HIGHER EDUCATION, 2000-PRESENT - ASHFORD
Ashford EDU 657 Week 6 Final Paper Higher Education, 2000-Present
Higher Education, 2000-Present. Due by Day 7. In this course, various topics about the reconfiguration of American higher education from 1673 to the present have been examined. Some of the topics include:
• The Past as Prologue: From 1900 to 2010.
• Higher Education’s Unfinished Business from 1990 to 2010.
• Demographics and Diversity: The Changing Profile of Students.
• Big-Time Intercollegiate Sports: Education’s Entertainment.
• Research Universities in an “Era of Big Bets” Federal Grants.
• State Universities and the New “A&M”: Athletics and Medicine.
• The Gridlock of Funding for State Universities.
• The Millennium in Perspective: American Higher Education from Twentieth to Twenty-First Centuries.
• College Students in an Era of Commercialization and Consumerism.
• Rethinking the Historic Role of Governing Boards and Trustees.
Instructions
After watching the short video, Complex Change in Higher Education by Fred Buining, create a video, website, timeline (similar to the assignment in week three), essay, PowerPoint, or other creative way to address the following:
• Reflect on various changes that have influenced the reconfiguration of American higher education in the twenty-first century.
• Select two of the topics listed above that you feel have made the greatest impact on higher education. Critically analyze the influences of past eras on present-day higher education.
• Evaluate how these topics are impacting higher education today, and discuss recommendations for change.
1. Guidelines for the Final Project
• Essays should be between ten to twelve pages in length (not including the title and reference pages).
• Videos should be approximately eight to ten minutes in length.
• PowerPoint presentations should be between eight to twelve slides and include Speaker’s notes, title, and
reference slides.
• A timeline should include each of the covered eras with all of the above components addressed for each.
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