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The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
The Innovative University Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out Author:Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring A hopeful vision to show universities how they can become more innovative, efficient, and true to their missionThis 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 an... more »d 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 educationDiscusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional universityContains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative waysThis book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.« less