MONDAY BUZZ: Ohio State President Calls on Higher Education to Meet
Economic Crisis Head-On
Feb. 9, 2009
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| Gordon Gee |
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee last night told leaders
gathered at the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Annual
Meeting that rather than merely waiting for the current economic crisis
to pass, institutions should use it to transform higher education for
the new century.
Giving the Robert H. Atwell Lecture at ACE's 91st
Annual Meeting, held this year in Washington, DC, Gee said the
choice for higher education during this critical juncture was
“reinvention or extinction.”
Gee said he believes colleges are in a unique position to help the
country out of the current economic situation, and urged institutions to
abandon their traditional discipline structure, rethink the way faculty
members are hired, and make community colleges more central to the
mission of higher education.
Listen to Gordon Gee's 2009 Atwell
Lecture (MP3).
For more on Gee’s address, see the following stories from this
morning’s Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher
Education:
Gordon Gee’s Call for ‘Reinvention’ of
Higher Ed
Inside Higher Ed
Gordon Gee Says Colleges Face 'Reinvention or
Extinction'
The Chronicle of Higher Education (sub. req.)
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