Chapter 24Change and the Indispensable University
Given the demand for the university's indispensable services, there is good reason to feel now as A. Lawrence Lowell did one hundred years ago: that the college of the future has a great work to do. The need for universities' discoveries, memories, and mentoring is greater than ever, and their capacity to perform those functions is unique.
Yet Lowell would also see in traditional higher education now what he did then, the need for change. It is not just that online technology is producing competitive disruption and threatening universities from without. American universities rose to preeminence by voluntarily embracing innovation. They changed when the great European universities of the day ...
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