What is the mission of higher education?

1. Focus on Learning: The Core Mission of Higher Education. Terry O'Banion obanion@league.org. A chapter from Focus on Learning: A Learning College Reader co-edited by Terry. O'Banion and Cynthia Wilson and published by the League for Innovation in the spring of 2010. Copies available at www.league.org. read more

You will often hear people speak about the tripartite mission of colleges and universities: teaching, research, and service. I think that way of describing the mission of higher education institutions reflects a basic misconception. Colleges and universities exist to serve the public. read more

THE MISSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Every college and university has an explicit mission, which has been. adopted by its board of trustees and is vaguely understood by faculty. and students. For most colleges and universities, service is included. with teaching and research as defining the tripartite mission of the. institution. read more

In New Mexico, institutes of higher education received more than $2 billion in funding from the state this year. read more