Faculty members at Connecticut’s regional universities and community colleges are considering a coordinated revolt against a systemwide plan they say prioritizes centralization and online education over academic excellence.
Gregory W. Gray, president of the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, has presented a vision of a university system that will “bolster enrollment, strengthen online learning capacity [and] work closely in collaboration with the business community to better align coursework with state defined industry growth sectors” in a plan known as Transform CSCU 2020. Yet as the plan progresses according to 36 separate road maps, faculty leaders say their sense of exclusion from the decision-making process is close to boiling over into civil disobedience.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/17/connecticut-faculty-push-back-systemwide-reform-plans
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