How to Save the Traditional University, From the Inside Out – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout
Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring offer some salient points on how to save the traditional university. Their recommendations include:
- The people inside the higher education community are the best suited to decide what is best for the university.
- Not every university can be Harvard so institutions must find what they do best.
- Online and hybrid learning is a viable options many students are pursuing and expecting.
- Focus on undergraduate students rather than limited graduate students
- Less is move–cutting back on majors and programs will help an institution focus on what it does best.
The following statement provides the best perspective on what universities must do to survive:
make focused choices in three critical areas: the students it serves, the subjects it offers, and the scholarship it performs.
I have been reading Christensen’s work for many years now and I keep on going back to it time and time again because he states the obvious uses a common approach. This commentary really offers no new ideas but common sense that faculty, staff and especially university administrators should act on.
