The document discusses the changing role and potential collapse of the traditional university system. It notes that universities are facing challenges like rising costs, outdated models of education, and new competitors from online/entrepreneurial education. However, universities could evolve by embracing experiential learning, multi-institutional collaborations, partnerships with industry, reexamining tenure, student-driven inquiry, and focusing on questions rather than departments. The future role of professors may involve experience design, project management, investing, curating resources, coaching students, and innovating.
The New University - 2010 President's Mountain Retreat
1. The New University Peg Faimon, Naus Family Faculty Scholar and Professor Glenn Platt, C. Michael Armstrong Chair and Professor Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Presidential Mountain Retreat 2010
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3. The Role of Higher Education So what’s the Purpose of a university anyway?
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