It might not come as a surprise to a lot of people, but a group of University of North Texas at Dallas faculty and staff members and a group of Fortune 500 management consultants have different ideas about how a university should be structured and run. The consultants made recommendations to the university’s administration this spring. Those recommendations were not made public, but reports based on them state that the consultants called for a narrow set of career-oriented majors, large teaching loads for faculty members and more hybrid (mixed online and in-person instruction) courses, and for recruitment to focus on traditional-aged, “driven” undergraduate students (the university’s current student body is composed largely of transfer students). Bain also recommended low tuition and increased enrollment. In a report the university tried to keep confidential but was obtained and published by The Dallas Morning News Thursday, the faculty and staff group were critical of the Bain plans and proposed a significantly different model.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/24/report-reveals-divergent-views-where-take-u-north-texas-dallas
