The Synthetic University : How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself / James L. Shulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shulman, James Lawrence, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Economic aspects.

Universities and colleges.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This book lays out a bold vision for a shared infrastructure for colleges and universities that can help them do what they do best at a lower cost"-- Provided by publisher.650.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself

1. The Synthetic Service Provider

The National Student Clearinghouse

The Problem with Relying Only on the Market

Artstor: One Shared Solution

2. Scanning Mona Lisa

A Conversation with a Professor

Artstor's Second Product: Shared Shelf

Times Change

Lessons Learned: What Worked (Artstor)

Lessons Learned: What Didn't Work (Shared Shelf)

3. The Hard Reality of Observed Practices: Institutional Resistance to Change

A Theory of Change

The Individual-Organization Split

The Department-Organization Split

The Alliance of Individuals and Their National Peers

Interinstitutional Department-to-Department Alliances

Data, Myth, and Mission

4. Rewriting Myths: Institutional Entrepreneurs

The Institutional Entrepreneur

The External Solution: Fitting In

An Ambitious External Entity with Aligned Aims

The Importance of the Market Test

5. The Incomplete Financing System for Mission- and Market-Compatible Ventures

Faster Cures: Sharing a Goal as Prerequisite for Systems Change

The Venture Philanthropy Model

Impact Investing: Can Market Investors Do Well While Doing Good in Higher Education?

Schoolzilla: A Case of Funding Mission-Driven Work

Switchboard: A Case That Shows the Limits of the System

Aligning Players and Capital in Support of a Shared Goal

6. The Possibilities of the Collective Curriculum

Mechanisms of a Shared Curriculum

Sunoikisis: The Role of Insiders in Institutional Change

The Textbook as Synthetic Mechanism

Interinstitutional Plumbing

The Continuing Threat of Extractive Partners

7. Conclusion: Choosing to Change

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691237626

069123762X

OCLC:

1385454787