The innovative university : changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out /
By: Christensen, Clayton M.
Contributor(s): Eyring, Henry J.
Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series: Publisher: San Francisco, Ca. : Jossey-Bass, c2011Description: xxx, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781118063484 (hardback); 9781118063484:; 1118063481 (hardback).Subject(s): Universities and colleges -- United States![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This work offers a powerful set of innovative solutions to the dilemmas and challenges in higher education. Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring, building on what Christensen has done for business, healthcare, and K-12 education, apply Christensen's model of disruptive innovation to higher education.