In this course, students explore emerging issues in higher education through substantive analysis that illustrates the breadth, depth, and diversity of challenges to and responses from colleges and universities. Through the course, students will be asked to synthesize their prior learning and apply their professional experience to assess and design policy and practice responses to emerging issues. Classes will be a mixture of discussion, group work, and in-class exercises, and assignments will include a significant piece of individual work.  prereq: AP 550. 4 cr.