Innovative University

CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the founder of Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank. He is the author of many books, including The Innovator’s Dilemma, and has applied his theory to K–12 education in Disrupting Class and to medicine in The Innovator’s Prescription. HENRY J. EYRING serves as an administrator at Brigham Young University-Idaho. He is a former strategy consultant at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Company.

• Preface viiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Ripe for Disruption—and Innovation xixPart One: Reframing the Higher Education CrisisChapter 1 The Educational Innovator’s Dilemma: Threat of Danger, Reasons for Hope 3Part Two: The Great American UniversityChapter 2 Puritan College 33Chapter 3 Charles Eliot, Father of American Higher Education 46Chapter 4 Pioneer Academy 72Chapter 5 Revitalizing Harvard College 80Chapter 6 Struggling College 98Chapter 7 The Drive for Excellence 110Chapter 8 Four-Year Aspirations in Rexburg 139Chapter 9 Harvard’s Growing Power and Profile 148Chapter 10 Staying Rooted 157Part Three: Ripe for DisruptionChapter 11 The Weight of the DNA 171Chapter 12 Even at Harvard 185Chapter 13 Vulnerable Institutions 192Chapter 14 Disruptive Competition 206Part Four: A New Kind of UniversityChapter 15 A Unique University Design 223Chapter 16 Getting Started 238Chapter 17 Raising Quality 249Chapter 18 Lowering Cost 276Chapter 19 Serving More Students 301Part Five: Genetic ReengineeringChapter 20 New Models 325Chapter 21 Students and Subjects 347Chapter 22 Scholarship 358Chapter 23 New DNA 379Chapter 24 Change and the Indispensable University 396Notes 403The Authors 445Innosight Institute 447Index 449

"Scholars will find this work a good point of departure for asking more pointed questions about how nest to meet the demands of an increasingly disparate population of students (and potential students) who have different needs and expectations from previous generations of college-going individuals." — Journal of College Student Retention Vol. 15 (3)