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

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 24, 2011 - Education - 512 pages
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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Contents

Section 1
31
Section 2
33
Section 3
46
Section 4
72
Section 5
80
Section 6
98
Section 7
110
Section 8
139
Section 17
223
Section 18
238
Section 19
249
Section 20
276
Section 21
301
Section 22
313
Section 23
323
Section 24
325

Section 9
148
Section 10
157
Section 11
169
Section 12
171
Section 13
185
Section 14
192
Section 15
206
Section 16
221
Section 25
347
Section 26
358
Section 27
379
Section 28
396
Section 29
402
Section 30
403
Section 31
445
Section 32
447

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About the author (2011)

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.

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