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E curriculum content, determination
of, 257
Economic growth, education and, 68, 181 driving forces for change, 276
Economics of Higher Education economics of higher education,
report, 62 266–269
Educational attainment figures, 178 enrollment estimates, 267
Educational database, creation of, 129 full-time, contractual faculty,
Electronic tools, see High-technology 261–262
learning materials, creation of full-time, tenured faculty, 259–261
Elite universities, 126 graduate assistants, 262
Employers, potential, 159–172
accreditation agencies and, 193 impact on higher education
outcomes, 277
building relationships between matching faculty capabilities and
students and potential instructional requirements,
employers, 166–168 263–266
cooperative education and internships, part-time contractual faculty, 262
166–167 pedagogy, creating and executing, 257
driving forces for change, 170 productivity, improving, 271–275
faculty, 160 recommendations, 277–279
impact on higher education outcomes, reconciling undergraduate and
170–171 graduate studies, 269–271
linking admissions to degree programs student performance, assessment of, 257
to job placement, 164–170 teaching teachers how to teach,
mechanism for recruiting, 168–170 259–262
placement services, 168 universities and faculty unions,
program advisory boards, 163–164 275–276
providing placement and job data, Faculty, types of, 8–11
164–166 full-time contractual faculty, 10, 261
reaching out to potential employers, graduate teaching assistants,
160–163 10–11, 262
recommendations, 171–172 part-time contractual faculty, 10, 262
survey, 159 tenured, 8–10, 88–89, 259
working directly with students, Family financial plan, 133
167–168 Federal funding, 187–190
Endowments, 115–116 Pell Grants and other grant programs,
Eroding standards, 86–90, 140 187–188
Expectations, see Changing attitudes and
expectations problems with private, for-profit
universities, 190
Extended completion time, 54–57, 64 research grants, 189
dropout rates, 54 student loans, 188
not-for-profit universities, 56 veteran education benefits
public institutions, 56
and general-purpose
appropriations, 190
work-study jobs, 188–189
F
Foreign applicants, 47
Faculty, reshaping the role of, 257–280 For-profit universities, 7
apprenticeship, 260, 261 FORTRAN, 207
capital investment, 271 Full-time equivalent (FTE) student, 173
cooperative education, 274 Funding finesse, 84, 139