1. Top Five Concerns in Higher Education Today
Presented by
Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, President
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Colleges
April 4, 2019

2. Issue #1 Cost of Higher Education

4. Issue #2 Shifting Student Demographics

5. Students of Tomorrow
Decrease in recent high school graduates (especially in Northeast, Midwest and West)
Increase in minority student enrollment
Increase in Part-time students
Increase in first generation students
Focus on job preparation and making money

6. Issue #3 Leadership Development

7. Recruitment Challenges
Graying of faculty
Economy keeps them working; more expensive
Salaries of adjunct and non-tenure track faculty are low
Changing roles of faculty---teacher, researcher, preceptor, TA, non- tenure
Administrators are all same age and retiring at same time
Need to ‘grow your own’ is greater

8. Issue #4 Use of Data in Decision Making

9. Data Easier to accomplish with data analytics
More personalized course delivery and advising
Student achievement
Decision making for
Budgeting
Number of classes offered
Number of faculty needed

10. Issue #5 Stackable Credentials vs Degrees

11. options Competency based education
Collection of badges and credentials vs college degree OR comprising college degree
Learning from MOOCs, YouTube and other technology platforms

12. What else??

13. Student Success Is The Goal

14. Contact Information
Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, President
SACSCOC