Explores the role of higher education in the Dominican Republic and the need to mesh the mission of the university; the specific needs of its social, economic, and cultural environment; and the characteristics of a rapidly changing world. (EV)

Campuses are less commonly communities of shared values and interests and are becoming complex bureaucracies governed from the top down by administrative elites, losing their collegial atmosphere and cultural distinctiveness. Power has been transferred from faculty to administration, borrowing corporate approaches at the expense of the academic…

The revolution in higher education being produced by advances in information technology brings these challenges: understanding what new skills students must master; making the distributed-learning environment an asset for interpersonal interaction; creating physical and virtual campuses that complement one another; creating large-scale…