Organizational Adaptation and Higher Education.

The recent report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education [46] concluded that "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments." The explicit objective of the commission's report was "to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land."

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