The innovative university : changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out /
"A hopeful vision to show universities how they can become more innovative, efficient, and true to their mission. This book shows how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation that they are currently facing. Unlike many doom and gloom pundits, they offer a nuanced and...
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| Language: | English |
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San Francisco, CA :
Jossey-Bass,
2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : ripe for disruption--and innovation
- Reframing the higher education crisis. The educational innovator's dilemma : threat of danger, reasons for hope
- The great American university. Puritan college
- Charles Eliot, father of American higher education
- Pioneer Academy
- Revitalizing Harvard College
- Struggling college
- The drive for excellence
- Four-year aspirations in Rexburg
- Harvard's growing power and profile
- Staying rooted
- Ripe for disruption. The weight of the DNA
- Even at Harvard
- Vulnerable institutions
- Disruptive competition
- A new kind of university. A unique university design
- Getting started
- Raising quality
- Lowering cost
- Serving more students
- Genetic reengineering. New models
- Students and subjects
- Scholarship
- New DNA
- Change and the indispensable university.
