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Below are several items that were either mentioned by Matt Tower or I came across them via offshoots of items that he linked to:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Future Universities Alliance Names Inaugural Innovation Sandbox Cohort<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from provost.duke.edu
\nProgram incubated by Duke brings together higher education innovators from 23 countries for year-long peer exchange<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Future Universities Alliance<\/a>\u00a0has selected 49 institutions from 23 countries for the inaugural cohort of its Innovation Sandbox, a 12-month peer learning program for higher education leaders advancing ambitious, institution-level innovation.The cohort brings together founders of new universities, administrators and faculty leading high-stakes changes within established institutions, and leaders of proven models exploring how their innovations can travel to new contexts. Participants were chosen through a competitive process that drew applicants from around the world in its inaugural year.<\/p>\n

A makeover for college: No gym, no meal plan and two years of work<\/strong> <\/a>— from npr.org by Jon Marcus<\/p>\n

An entirely new college is being planned here to change not only how higher education is delivered, but at what price. It also proposes to highlight ways the current business model no longer works, as evidenced by the\u00a0152 colleges and universities<\/a>\u00a0that have closed or merged since 2016, and the 442 others that a new projection says\u00a0are at risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So deeply entrenched are the problems confronting higher education that a growing chorus of innovators says the easiest way to fix them is to begin again from scratch.<\/p>\n

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All undergraduates should get work-based learning, v-cs say<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from timeshighereducation.com by Jack Grove. NOTE: this item is behind a paywall.<\/em><\/span>
\nBold plan to support graduate employment would require placements for 1.4 million students annually<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below are several items that were either mentioned by Matt Tower or I came across them via offshoots of items that he linked to: Future Universities Alliance Names Inaugural Innovation Sandbox Cohort\u00a0— from provost.duke.edu Program incubated by Duke brings together higher education innovators from 23 countries for year-long peer exchange The\u00a0Future Universities Alliance\u00a0has selected 49 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,322,61,174,86,209,127,115,498,302,112,57,840,159,237,177,533,71,36,35,178,3,419,180,119,74,7,838,79,15,239,436,855,480,310,20,66,212,50,145,321,214,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-adjunct-faculty","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-culture","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-entrepreneurship","category-expectations","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-liberal-arts","category-lifelong-learning","category-new-business-models","category-reinvent","category-skills","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-teaching-learning","category-traditional-tradition","category-united-states","category-universities","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99183,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99178\/revisions\/99183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}