{"id":25906,"date":"2011-12-29T10:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=25906"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:51:20","slug":"an-open-letter-to-university-administrators-by-clayton-christensen-8-thoughts-on-higher-education-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/12\/29\/an-open-letter-to-university-administrators-by-clayton-christensen-8-thoughts-on-higher-education-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to university administrators by Clayton Christensen: 8 thoughts on higher education in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpts from<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/college-inc\/post\/guest-post-eight-thoughts-on-higher-education-in-2012\/2011\/12\/22\/gIQA0RwXBP_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>An open letter to university administrators by Clayton Christensen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Defending the status quo is futile, and it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Clinging to tradition will worsen individual and institutional disruption, while embracing innovation will hasten a new era of higher education productivity\u2014not only of well-educated degree holders, but of new knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/health\/la-me-adv-usc-giving-20111229,0,383904.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>USC pursues aggressive fundraising effort despite hard times<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from the Los Angeles Times<br \/>\nIn its quest for $6 billion in new donations by 2018, the university bolsters its staff and looks to award naming rights.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/uc-berkeley-and-other-public-ivies-in-fiscal-peril\/2011\/12\/14\/gIQAfu4YJP_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UC-Berkeley and other \u2018public Ivies\u2019 in fiscal peril<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Washington Post by Daniel de Vise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/uc-berkeley-and-other-public-ivies-in-fiscal-peril\/2011\/12\/14\/gIQAfu4YJP_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_606w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2011\/12\/21\/Education\/Images\/UC_Berkeley_Financial_Aid_02992.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">BERKELEY, Calif. \u2014 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from An open letter to university administrators by Clayton Christensen Defending the status quo is futile, and it\u2019s 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. 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