The Innovative University - Clayton M. Christensen, Henry J. Eyring

The language of crisis is nothing new in higher education-for years critics have raisedalarms about rising tuition, compromised access, out of control costs, and a host of otherissues. Yet, though those issues are still part of the current crisis, it is not the same aspast ones. For the first time, disruptive technologies are at work in higher education. Formost of their histories, traditional universities and colleges have had no serious competitionexcept from institutions with similar operating models. Now, though, there are disruptivecompetitors offering online degrees. Many of these institutions operate as for-profit entities,emphasizing marketable degrees for working adults. Traditional colleges and universitieshave valuable qualities and capacities that can offset those disruptors' advantages-butnot for everyone who aspires to higher education, and not without real innovation. How caninstitutions of higher education think constructively and creatively about their response toimpending disruption?Written by Clayton Christensen, the father of the theory of disruptive innovation, and hiscolleague,Henry J. Eyring, The Innovative University offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis ofthe traditional university and its DNA. It explores how and why universities must change toensure future success.Throughout the book Christensen and Eyring show what it takes to apply Christensen'sacclaimed model of disruptive innovation to a higher education environment. Through apenetrating examina
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