Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation
U.S. higher education is both enormously successful and essential to our future, yet it is endlessly frustrating for its lack of innovation and ruthlessly rising costs. This important volume tackles the conundrums that surround this most conservative of enterprises and points the way toward improvements in the educational performance of our colleges and universities. Essential reading for both those within and outside the academy. --David W. Breneman, University Professor and Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education, University of VirginiaThis collection of well-researched essays offers a comprehensive view of an educational landscape that is changing under our feet. People who think they understand American higher education are likely to find many surprises in this insightful book. --Richard H. Brodhead, president, Duke UniversityIn the twentieth century, America built the world s best system of higher education, one that combined openness with excellence. But can it maintain its lead in the twenty-first century? Reinventing Higher Education offers not only a clear-eyed assessment of the state of American higher education it also provides a compelling, indeed inspiring, blueprint for how the system can remain the best in the world. This book is essential reading for America s captains of higher learning and indeed for anybody who cares about the future of the country. --Adrian Wooldridge, management editor and Schumpeter columnist, The Economist