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There is a growing interest in and active discussion about new educational environmmts. which shift the emphasis of education from fitculty and their teaching to students and their learning. This shift enables us to view the education ofstudents in multiple educational environments beyond the traditional model offitculty teaching students in a classroom. Combining both different instructional roles and educational settings into new higher education models of undergraduate education will demand thatfitculty learn new roles. It also holds out thehope that reducing thedemands onfitculty timeand increasing theavailability ofother institutional resources will enhance the quality offitculty worklift. 70 succrssfUl/y address fitctors likefinancial constraints and accountability while creating. implementing; and sustaining new higher education models will require the commitment ofa number of significant groups in the institution. Amongthe most important will be the work offitculty deoelopment professionals and the centers tluy lead. 257