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5. Change organizational structure, lower costs, and enhance quality
through mergers, closing branch campuses, and most importantly
by outsourcing activities.

B.1.6 Chapter 12: Reshaping Faculty’s Role

1. To improve quality and efficiency, all types of faculty must be edu-
cated in content, pedagogy, and assessment of learning. Evaluation
of teaching performance by students and peers who are master
teachers, access to resources, teaching seminars, and other mecha-
nisms are essential.
2. It is important to identify the capabilities of different faculty types,
know the instructional needs for courses, and match these to get
both high quality and low cost.
3. General education and interdisciplinary core courses tend to gener-
ate substantial surpluses, which are used to subsidize other under-
graduate courses as well as courses in master’s and PhD programs.
State governments should create a HEC to examine these subsidy
issues.
4. It is vital to improve faculty productivity by investing in sophis-
ticate, top-quality methods for communicating knowledge and
supporting faculty so they create innovative and efficient ways to
teaching students. Universities and faculty must move away from
the notion that a three-credit-hour course requires three hours of
face time.
5. Faculty unions are not the cause of the problems that universities
face but are the result of these problems. University leaders and ten-
ured and professional faculty must mend the relationships that have
created the underlying problems and driven faculty to unionize.

B.1.7 Chapter 13: Creating High-Technology Learning Materials
1. Universities must create high-tech reading materials that are interac-
tive and help students identify and address knowledge gaps. These
should have lower cost, better content coverage, enhanced learning
for students, and better outcomes for publishers.
2. Universities must create high-tech, digitized lectures and video
vignettes that allow students to have access to top tenured and