Planning for Higher Education Journal

“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education
by Brian Rosenberg
Harvard Education Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts: 2023
224 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1682538289

Reviewed by John Kilmarx, PhD



Brian Rosenberg, the author of “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education, argues that improvements in higher education are needed—which is certainly not a controversial or surprising outlook. However, he also says many institutions are on an unsustainable financial path, which makes the imperatives for change more urgent. What exactly needs to be addressed and how dramatically, though, is a matter of one’s perspective. The reviewer observes that in most cases, sustainable changes have been ongoing but incremental, not transformational. Some stakeholders might celebrate that fact. In other corners, this is not enough, and so frustrations abound.

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