IntroductionRipe for Disruption—and Innovation

Just how much trouble is American higher education in, really? The answer may vary greatly depending on your primary source of information. If you rely mainly on the news media and books, things look grim. State legislators seem to be at war with their own public institutions; higher education, the largest discretionary item in the state budget, is on the chopping block. At a national level, the United States appears to be in educational decline relative to countries in which college participation and completion is steadily rising. From campuses come books by university scholars who cite research and personal experience in declaring their institutions to be broken.

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