Editorial: Strong leaders are crucial as higher ed transitions - Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board

The evolution of higher education, wrought by changing demographics, technologies and economics, is forcing colleges and universities to re-evaluate who, where and how they will educate students in coming decades. The institutions that embrace the changes needed to keep them relevant will succeed, as will the students they teach. To New Mexico’s credit, its Department of Higher Education and key leaders at its universities and colleges recognize those changes and are at work planning how to address them. Higher Education Secretary Barbara Damron has enlisted about 100 university administrators, faculty, lawmakers, business leaders, public school educators and others statewide to discuss the best structure for the state’s system, which now consists of 31 colleges and universities with multiple branches and even “twigs” of those branches. The groups hope to present recommendations to the Legislature and governor by the end of the year. https://www.abqjournal.com/1051401/strong-leaders-are-crucial.html