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.
- ISBN10 6613176516
- ISBN13 9786613176516
- Publish Date 24 June 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jossey-Bass
- Format eBook
- Pages 509
- Language English