Whether we like it or not, the nature of higher
education is changing: teaching and learning going more digital, more students
learning on-line and off-campus and in "flipped classrooms," costs and debt making enrollment and
persistence very difficult for our most challenged students, and insufficient
supports to help them succeed. Yet we all understand that such education is the launchpad for life-long
fulfillment.
Colleges in Connecticut and beyond – two-year,
four-year, and technical programs – are trying to address these challenges in
new and creative ways, with limited resources.
It’s CHERE’s mission to help share ideas that
work and bring practitioners together to seek new strategies and solutions; so
join key policy makers and higher education leaders from Connecticut and the
region for an important two-day conference, on consecutive Fridays on two
campuses, to examine the nature of higher education today, and the challenges
and practices, at a variety of public and private schools, that can make a
difference.