Pivot: A Vision For The New University
Pivot: A Vision For The New University Pivot: A Vision For The New University OTHER ARTICLES The news sure looks bad: rapidly shifting student demographics, the ever-increasing speed of technological innovation, and extreme legislative and public pressure are squeezing colleges and universities into a lose-lose race toward irrelevancy. Detailed in countless articles and books, the challenges faced by institutions of higher learning in the U.S. are varied and weighty.But higher education is far from doomed. It is at this inflection point in which independent colleges and universities have the opportunity to revolutionize higher education. It is time to pivot towards a new university, one that radically refocuses structure and pedagogy on students and their learning reimagines the foundational institutional structures of leadership, tenure, and the higher education business model and produces national examples for access and inclusion. In an industry notoriously slow to adapt and e...