The Challenge of the Nineties in US Higher Education : From Camelot to the 21st Century

Education is the second largest sector of the US economy after health, totaling over $600 billion, of which $160 billion is spent for higher education. Although US higher education may be the best in the world, the late 1990s will bring challenges in three areas : 1) accreditation : criticism of US accreditation practices is growing (there is no good way to assess the quality of educational programs, little information is available to the public, the process sometimes inhibits new ways to ...

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