Market Forces
Powerful economic forces, changing societal needs, and technology are creating powerful market forces.
Are we entering just another period of evolution for the university? Or will the dramatic nature and compressed time scales characterizing the technology-driven changes of our times trigger a process more akin to revolution?
Could a tidal wave of technological, economic, and social forces sweep over the academy, both transforming the university in unforeseen and perhaps unacceptable ways while creating new institutional forms to challenge both our experience and concept of the university?