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.
關於作者:
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 nonprofit 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.
目錄:
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.