Fundamental change needed in higher education

Whether ready or no, change is coming for higher education.  The critique is that graduation rates are not acceptable, life experience is not affirmed, and current educational practices ignore the reality that students expect higher education to prepare them for the workplace.  These issues, and more, are the challenges that educators must tackle in order to maintain relevance in the 21st century context.  The problem is, although higher education seeks to break the intellectual boundaries through research and knowledge creation, introspection about the effectiveness of its practices is rare.