Description
Book SynopsisThe Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future.
Trade Review"Scholars will find this work a good point of departure for asking more pointed questions about how nest to meet the demands of an increasingly disparate population of students (and potential students) who have different needs and expectations from previous generations of college-going individuals." — Journal of College Student Retention Vol. 15 (3)
Table of ContentsPreface vii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Ripe for Disruption—and Innovation xix
Part One: Reframing the Higher Education Crisis
Chapter 1 The Educational Innovator’s Dilemma: Threat of Danger, Reasons for Hope 3
Part Two: The Great American University
Chapter 2 Puritan College 33
Chapter 3 Charles Eliot, Father of American Higher Education 46
Chapter 4 Pioneer Academy 72
Chapter 5 Revitalizing Harvard College 80
Chapter 6 Struggling College 98
Chapter 7 The Drive for Excellence 110
Chapter 8 Four-Year Aspirations in Rexburg 139
Chapter 9 Harvard’s Growing Power and Profile 148
Chapter 10 Staying Rooted 157
Part Three: Ripe for Disruption
Chapter 11 The Weight of the DNA 171
Chapter 12 Even at Harvard 185
Chapter 13 Vulnerable Institutions 192
Chapter 14 Disruptive Competition 206
Part Four: A New Kind of University
Chapter 15 A Unique University Design 223
Chapter 16 Getting Started 238
Chapter 17 Raising Quality 249
Chapter 18 Lowering Cost 276
Chapter 19 Serving More Students 301
Part Five: Genetic Reengineering
Chapter 20 New Models 325
Chapter 21 Students and Subjects 347
Chapter 22 Scholarship 358
Chapter 23 New DNA 379
Chapter 24 Change and the Indispensable University 396
Notes 403
The Authors 445
Innosight Institute 447
Index 449
