The Innovative University
Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
Published on 24. June 2011
512 pages
978-1-118-09127-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Innovative University illustrates how higher education canrespond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers anuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional universityand its traditions have come from and how it needs to change forthe future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as wellas other stories of innovation in higher education, ClaytonChristensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can findinnovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuablefunctions.
* Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, facultyissues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facilityusage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education
* Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at thetraditional university
* Contains novel insights into the kind of change that isnecessary to move institutions of higher education forward ininnovative ways
This book uncovers how the traditional university survives bybreaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's donebest.
Reviews / Votes
"Scholars will find this work a good point of departure forasking more pointed questions about how nest to meet the demands ofan increasingly disparate population of students (and potentialstudents) who have different needs and expectations from previousgenerations of college-going individuals." -- Journal ofCollege Student Retention Vol. 15 (3)More details
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Clayton M. Christensen | Henry J. Eyring
The Innovative University
Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
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THE AUTHORS
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the founder of Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank. He is the author of many books, including The Innovator's Dilemma, and has applied his theory to K-12 education in Disrupting Class and to medicine in The Innovator's Prescription.
HENRY J. EYRING serves as an administrator at Brigham Young University-Idaho. He is a former strategy consultant at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Company.
Content
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Ripe for Disruption--and Innovationxix
Part One: Reframing the Higher Education Crisis
Chapter 1 The Educational Innovator's Dilemma: Threat ofDanger, Reasons for Hope 3
Part Two: The Great American University
Chapter 2 Puritan College 33
Chapter 3 Charles Eliot, Father of American Higher Education46
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
