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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: American public university in 1998
    sub title: a scenario
  name:
    name part: Miloy, Leatha Hill.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hoyle, John
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1978
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 221 leaves : forms ; 28 cm
  abstract: The research involves the development of a propositional inventory of circumstances or events which could occur in American higher education during the coming twenty-year period. Following a modified version of the scenario-generating method developed by Vanston, the research employs the judgment of a panel of experts in forecasting methods to ascertain the probability of occurrence and impact of such occurrence on higher education for each of 134 items included in the propositional inventory. Based on the circumstances chosen by consensus of the experts as being both highly probable (60 percent or greater chance of occurrence) and having high impact value, a narrative scenario describing the American public university in the year 1998 is constructed. The scenario is written as future history and follows the style of Turoff and Ehrlich. Graduate Advisory Committee members evaluated the scenario on four elements: utility, information reproducibility, plausibility and value explicitness. Based on the evaluation returns, the scenario was modified and is presented in Chapter VI of the paper. The scenario points out the impact of the egalitarian movement on higher education and suggests that by 1998 anyone who wants to attend college may do so, making universal higher education an attainable goal by the year 2000. The effects of enrollment declines, in the 1980's and increasing financial austerity are also elements of the university in the future. A unionized faculty and a reformed curriculum pose problems for the coming years. University governance has become more fragmented and the public continues to expect greater accountability from higher education. In particular, the federal presence has become significant. For students the value of a college degree in the job market has deteriorated since the 1970's...
  note: "Major subject: Educational Administration."
  note: Vita.
  note: Texas A & M University
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-197).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Aims and objectives
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Forecasting
  subject:
    topic: Public universities and colleges
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Major educational administration
  subject:
    topic: Education, Higher
    topic: Aims and objectives
  subject:
    topic: Public universities and colleges
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-324567
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-324567
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 790301
    record change date: 20220103135440.0
    record identifier: in00000318268
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng