Colleges today must innovate to combat modern challenges such as an entrenched business model, the academic calendar, decentralization, and shared governance. Campus leaders may find large-scale innovation difficult, however, since change in academe is largely conservative by design. For some institutions, like Syracuse University, innovation involves expanding outreach and programming beyond single departments, such as their push to make student veterans a priority.
The Chronicle’s latest report, “The Innovation Imperative,” examines the necessary elements for meaningful progress. This comprehensive resource features analysis from Chronicle writers as well as fifteen case studies from campuses innovating to lessen demographic decline, raise graduation rates, and reverse failure rates.
- The challenges to innovation in academe
- The myths that surround innovation backlash
- Insights into building a lasting business model
- Why changes to education are necessary in this era
- How to decide which “great idea" to support
