Recent Trends in Higher Education: Accountability, Efficiency, Technology, and Governance

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Article

Publication Title

Journal of Legal Education

Abstract

There are at least four broad trends affecting American higher education today that in many ways have significant potential to redefine it as an industry in the years ahead. These trends include an increasing demand for accountability, greater financial efficiency, increased use of technology, and changes in the organization and governance of institutions of higher learning. The changes that are likely to occur as a result of these trends will affect all of higher education and how it operates, including legal education in bot independent law schools and law schools in university settings. Most of these new trends, it should be noted, are not being generated from within the academy but rather are coming from outside critics in the public and private sectors, and many of the recommended changes are being resisted by higher-education institutions. Very similar and interesting parallels to the most recent changes in higher education have occurred already in the healthcare industry. Indeed, in the same areas of accountability, efficiency, technology, and organizational governance, one could say that higher education's time has arrived to undergo the same kind of scrutiny and likely changes that this country has been going through in healthcare for the past ten years.

First Page

528

Last Page

539

Publication Date

12-2002

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The AALS (Association of American Law Schools) has the copyright for this volume of the Journal of Legal Education. Reproduced with permission. 

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