The Innovative University : Changing the DNA of Higher Education From the Inside Out

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. This Work Offers A Hopeful Vision To Show Universities How They Can Become More Innovative, Efficient, And True To Their Mission. It Shows How Higher Education Can Respond To The Forces Of Disruptive Innovation That They Are Currently Facing. The Authors Offer An 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 Brigham Young University, Idaho As Well As Other Stories Of Innovation In Higher Education, They Decipher How Universities Can Find Innovative, Less Costly Ways Of Performing Their Uniquely Valuable Functions. The Book 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. It Discusses A Strategic Model To Ensure Economic Vitality At The Traditional University. It Contains Novel Insights Into The Kind Of Change That Is Necessary To Move Institutions Of Higher Education Forward In Innovative Ways. To Avoid The Pitfalls Of Of Disruption And And Turn The Scenarion Into A Positive And Prodcutive One, Universities Must Re-engineer Their Institutional Dna From The Inside Out. This Book Uncovers How The Traditional University Survives By Breaking With Tradition, But Thrives By Building On What It Has Done Best. -- Provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: Preface.acknowledgments.introduction: Ripe For Disruption -- And Innovation.part I Reframing The Higher Education Crisis.chapter 1 The Educational Innovator's Dilemma: Threat Of Danger, Reasons For Hope.part Ii The Great American University.chapter 2 Puritan College.chapter 3 Charles Eliot, Father Of American Higher Education.chapter 4 Pioneer Academy.chapter 5 Revitalizing Harvard College.chapter 6 Struggling College.chapter 7 The Drive For Excellence.chapter 8 Four-year Aspirations In Rexburg.chapter 9 Harvard's Growing Power And Profile.chapter 10 Staying Rooted.part Iii Ripe For Disruption.chapter 11 The Weight Of The Dna.chapter 12 Even At Harvard.chapter 13 Vulnerable Institutions.chapter 14 Disruptive Competition.part Iv A New Kind Of University.chapter 15 A Unique University Design.chapter 16 Getting Started.chapter 17 Raising Quality.chapter 18 Lowering Cost.chapter 19 Serving More Students.part V Genetic Reengineering.chapter 20 New Models.chapter 21 Students And Subjects.chapter 22 Scholarship.chapter 23 New Dna.chapter 24 Change And The Indispensable University.notes.the Authors.innosight Institute.index. Clayton M. Christensen And Henry J. Eyring. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This work offers a hopeful vision to show universities how they can become more innovative, efficient, and true to their mission. It shows how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation that they are currently facing. The authors offer an 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 Brigham Young University, Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, they decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions. The book 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. It discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university. It contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways. To avoid the pitfalls of disruption and turn the scenario into a positive and productive one, universities must re-engineer their institutional DNA from the inside out. This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it has done best. -- Provided by publisher "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 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, Christensen and 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"-- Hesse’s most highly acclaimed book, The Glass Bead Game is set in a fictional state in Central Europe in the 25th Century. 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