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The innovative university : changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Clayton M., 1952-2020.
- Series:
- The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series The innovative university
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational change--United States.
- Universities and colleges--United States.
- Universities and colleges.
- Educational change.
- Local Subjects:
- Educational change--United States.
- Universities and colleges--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (509 p.)
- Other Title:
- The Innovative University : Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
- Innovative University, The
- The innovative university
- Innovative University
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wiley, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 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. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions. Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613176516
- 9781283176514
- 1283176513
- 9781118091272
- 1118091272
- OCLC:
- 811495223
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