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How to kill the university | thesephist.com
The university is a public space as well as an ivory tower, and it can become a more organic part of the shared imagination of the place where it is based. I’ve long been convinced of the potential for more ‘challenge-based’ universities, which organise more of their output around unanswered questions rather than just bodies of knowledge, and which
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
My prediction is that wherever this research is conducted will become an epicenter of new entrepreneurial practice, and universities conducting this research therefore may be able to achieve a much higher level of commercialization of their basic research activities.4
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
This is where the opportunity lies. Through severely overdue cost reductions and deploying small and big tech, we can dramatically lower the cost per student of a college education. The corporatization of campuses, bloated administrations, tenure, a lack of accountability, and a god complex that we, academics, are noble when in fact we’ve been prey... See more