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"Big Change on Campus: A Futurist Looks at Trends in Higher Education"
Author: Snyder, David Pearce
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: January/February 2006

Adapted from author's keynote address presented at APPA's 2005 Educational Facilities Leadership Forum in Orlando, Florida. Reviews the powerful forces impacting higher education's operating environment. Begins by noting that academics are disinclined to think the university needs to change, despite rapid developments in information technology and other areas. Among the developments that will affect how campuses do business: faculty retiring, enrollments increasing, cashless transactions and paperless procurements, web telephoning, grid computing, open source software, groupware, wikis, globalization, outsourcing, electronic course delivery, lifelong learning, etc.

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