1. A Presentation Dr. Joseph G. Burke Fulbright Specialist, Thailand June 2013

2.  2,000 colleges, universities, boards/councils  36,000 individual members ◦ Board/Council Members ◦ Presidents and Senior Administrators ◦ Others  Areas of Research Focus ◦ Composition, Attitudes and Needs ◦ Governance-Administrative Relationships ◦ “Best Practices”

3.  Provide US Education Context  Review Quality Movement  Dream about Future  Identify Ultimate Risk Assessment  Questions and Answers

4.  No powerful ministry of education  Highly diverse & decentralized  Overlapping and sometimes inefficient governing structures ◦ Federal ◦ State ◦ Non-government commissions/agencies ◦ University governance board/council  Yet system: ◦ “best in the world” reputation ◦ protects academic freedom ◦ Encourages innovation, critical thinking, entrepreneurial behavior © Copyright 2013 | Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges4

5. #1 Set Ambitious and Clearly Articulated Education Goals #2 Gather Evidence of Student Learning #3 Use Evidence to Improve Student Learning #4 Share Evidence with All Constituencies

6.  US tends to disaggregate quality and risk management functions  US has far more diversified and de- centralized approach  Key concerns are quality, competitiveness, effectiveness of meeting changing occupational requirements

7.  How Good is our Product ◦ What a student knows and can do upon graduation? ◦ What is the “value added” by the learning process?  How good are we at producing our product? ◦ retention, graduation rates, academic performance  Are our customers satisfied? ◦ alumni satisfaction and performance ◦ employer satisfaction  Do we have the right mix of majors?  Do we make the grade? (Accreditation)

8.  Prepare our institutions for tomorrow’s world  Prepare to do better tomorrow than today

9. The Ultimate Risk Assessment

10.  Rising Costs & Declining Resources  Decreasing Governmental Support ◦ Conflict Between Education V Health Care   Rising Demands: ◦ Lower cost ◦ Increase Accessibility, Retention, Graduation Rates ◦ Increase Educational Quality ◦ Expand Research & involvement ◦ Better Prepare Students for Careers  Accommodating Technology Innovations

11.  New technologies allow us to gather, store, analyze, and present more data on an almost exponential basis ◦ Hard to keep up with expanding knowledge base ◦ Analytics fastest growing technology career  Pace of change greatly affects higher education ◦ Roles and costs ◦ faculty ◦ curriculum ◦ delivery systems and instructional strategies ◦ students ◦ classrooms, libraries, and other learning facilities

12.  Key Questions ◦ What will the world that we are preparing our students for look like 10, 25, and 50 years from now? ◦ How to change university components to best prepare graduates?  Graduate learning outcomes  Curriculum;  Instructional strategies and delivery systems;  Faculty;  Facilities ◦ What to do now to insure changes made in time?

13.  Thai tablet distribution policy ◦ What kind of students must we prepare for?  Different types of learners?  Motivation?  Learning strategies, pedagogies, and delivery modes?  Faculty and staff change?  Preparation steps?  Facilities?  MOOCs ◦ Curricula impact?

14.  We live in exciting times caused by increasing rate of change and emerging technologies!!!  We are fortunate to be educators  Our mission in life is extremely important – to educate the next generation of citizens for our nation and our world  Life doesn’t get any better than this!  Good luck and have fun!!!!

15. Thank You For Listening!!!