Transforming in an Age of Disruptive Change

by Donald Norris, Robert Brodnick, Paul Lefrere, Joseph Gilmour, Linda Baer, Ann Hill Duin, and Stephen Norris

“A look at what the future looked like in 1995, and what happened in higher ed as we moved through seventeen years to 2013? Then, a look ahead . . . Remember: Just because we are changing a great deal does not mean we are transforming.” Eighteen years ago, the SCUP book, Transforming Higher Education—A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century, was a higher education bestseller. In this new monograph, co-author and SCUP Distinguished Service Award recipient Donald M. Norris and his team review what the Academy was doing and thinking in 1995, and what has happened since. They take stock of the present and look back at it from the perspective of 2020. Pragmatically, they suggest dual paths forward. Which will your institution take? Path A, reposition the core? Path B, leap into the future? Or perhaps, as the authors suggest, both?

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I: Snapshots from the 2020 Future
• Part II: Revisiting 1995, then Zooming to the 2013 Present
• Part III: Starting in 2013, Getting it Done
• Part IV: Vignettes from the 2020 Future, Stories from the Frontline of Transformation
• Appendix: Addressing the Challenges Facing American Higher Education
• References
• Selected Readings
• Author Biographies

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