Differentiating America's Colleges and Universities: A Case Study in Institutional Innovation in Arizona

Autor/in	Crow, Michael M.
Titel	Differentiating America's Colleges and Universities: A Case Study in Institutional Innovation in Arizona
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 42 (2010) 5, S.36-41 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Case Studies; Educational Innovation; Financial Exigency; Costs; Models; Educational Planning; College Presidents; Access to Education; Excellence in Education; Administrative Organization; Educational Change; Research Universities; Arizona + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Finanzielle Härte; Cost; Kosten; Analogiemodell; Bildungsplanung; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Lernerfolg; Bildungsreform; Forschungseinrichtung
Abstract	Colleges and universities negotiating their recovery from the most severe recession in nearly a century are currently implementing a welter of hastily devised measures aimed at reducing operating costs, becoming more efficient, and restoring a prior equilibrium. Administrators reacting to the downturn should not restrict their focus to the short term, fixating exclusively on cost cutting or reshuffling longstanding priorities. They should instead engage in comprehensive long-range planning that uncovers and fixes "design flaws" and advances new and differentiated models for the nation's colleges and universities. The reconceptualization of Arizona State University (ASU) is considered in this article as a case study of how one university has accomplished such a redesign. As president of ASU, the author has led an effort to reinvent the youngest major public research institution in the United States through a comprehensive "design process" that has included both an exhaustive reevaluation of their academic organization and operations and an effort to pioneer what they term the "New American University"--an egalitarian institution committed to academic excellence, access, and maximum societal impact. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10