As a university president, I am all too familiar with the headlines and stories that paint a grim future for higher education. The demise of traditional four-year universities. An end to their relevance in a rapidly evolving world. The crumbling of higher education as we know it. In early August, Higher Ed Dive even reported that two-thirds of adult survey respondents said they see colleges as “stuck in the past” and not serving the needs of today’s students.
Despite the out-of-touch, ivory-tower cliche, institutions of higher education are keenly aware of the very real — and very significant — challenges we are facing, nationally and locally.
