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Conclusions
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uning academic disciplines has an immediate allure to faculty, whose identification is often first with their discipline and then with the department, division, or institution where they are employed. Tuning work
groups composed and led by faculty enjoy the advantage of discussing and coming
to consensus about the core of their discipline outside the context of budgets, number of majors, student faculty ratios, course schedules, assignments, or other factors associated with department and institutional management and politics. Change that results from Tuning should not be expected to happen immediately. Many of the beneficial results anticipated from Tuning (e.g., improved teaching and learning; greater transparency, efficiency, and productivity; enhanced degree relevance) will require several years to be realized. At the same time, some immediate effects from Tuning are often apparent.
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