Tuesday December 27, 2011

The future holds unimagined opportunities. Innovation, especially in the form of new technology, tends to worry even the best-educated and most-skilled workers. In fact, innovation often creates short-term disruption, and that is likely to be true of the innovations coming to higher education. However, the long march of innovation has produced more knowledge workers, not fewer, and it has made their jobs intellectually richer and more financially productive. That will be true of tomorrow’s university professors. Clinging to tradition will worsen individual and institutional disruption, while embracing innovation will hasten a new era of higher education productivity—not only of well-educated degree holders, but of new knowledge. — <p><em>An open letter to university administrators by Clayton M. Christensen, Kim B. Clark professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and Henry J. Eyring, advancement vice president at Brigham Young University-Idaho</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/guest-post-eight-thoughts-on-higher-education-in-2012/2011/12/22/gIQA0RwXBP_blog.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a></p>