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The Changing Role that Education Plays
- The Journal of General Education
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 62, Numbers 2-3, 2013
- pp. 144-159
- 10.1353/jge.2013.0013
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Our educational system has always reflected the social, cultural, and economic conditions prevailing at the time. The impact of technological advances as well as global competition now impose a new agenda on higher education to ensure that all students can succeed in a complex and rapidly changing world. Fortunately, we have many resources to aid us in this effort as we work our way through a new era of rapid change—energetic new faculty, cross-generational groups of students who can inspire and inform each other, and new community connections that are opening up pathways to learning.