Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring

The Innovative University (eBook, PDF)

Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118091272
• Artikelnr.: 38231061

Autorenporträt

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 non-profit 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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"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)