Excerpts from An open letter to university administrators by Clayton Christensen
Defending the status quo is futile, and it’s no fun. Given fiscal realities beyond the control of university administrators, defending the operational status quo means choosing between big, focused cuts or death by a thousand small ones. Trading up to a larger school offers no escape from the grisly task of doing less with less.
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Clinging to tradition will worsen individual and institutional disruption, while embracing innovation will hasten a new era of higher education productivity—not only of well-educated degree holders, but of new knowledge.
Also see:
- USC pursues aggressive fundraising effort despite hard times — from the Los Angeles Times
In its quest for $6 billion in new donations by 2018, the university bolsters its staff and looks to award naming rights.
. - UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril — from The Washington Post by Daniel de Vise
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BERKELEY, Calif. — Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility.