CELT DISCUSSION – Crisis? What Crisis? *
*Album cover – Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis? Released 11/29/1975 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supertramp_-_Crisis.jpg)
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | 10:30 am
Join the conversation:
- How bad WCSU’s enrollment crisis is?
- How concerned are you about this crisis?
- How can faculty preserve and promote WCSU?
- What can faculty do to keep WCSU viable during this crisis?
- What teaching methods can attract, retain, and support students?
- What content will make WCSU relevant and attractive to prospective students?
See what others say:
A World Economic Forum analysis published on 11/3/2020 points out that COVID-19 exposes existing tensions regarding the value of university education. It stipulates that COVID-19 means that universities might shrink or implode. It states that Universities are cornerstones of society and must be preserved.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/covid-19-higher-education-and-the-impact-on-society-what-we-know-so-far-and-what-could-happen/
An October 2020 KPMG International industry analysis of the higher education sector predicts the end of a golden age for universities, that a disruption is underway in higher education, and that change and adaptation are critical for institutional survival.
https://assets.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/xx/pdf/2020/10/future-of-higher-education.pdf
On October 22, 2020, the US-based National Student Center Clearinghouse Research Center published an updated report on the impact of COVID-19 on US higher education enrollments. To highlight unique enrollment patterns that are attributable to the pandemic the Center reported year-over-year percent change in enrollment between 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 based on the same institutions reporting in 2018 and 2019. The data shows that COVID 19 lead to a broad and clear decline in undergraduate and freshmen enrollments and to steep declines in enrollments of minority students and students in community colleges.
https://nscresearchcenter.org/stay-informed/
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | 10:30 am | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) | 1 hr
By Webex, see VPAA academic announcements for details.
