Just how much trouble is higher education in, really? The answer will vary considerably depending on your perspective—parent, student, professor, administrator or legislator—and your primary source of information. Here we have listed sources of information that present dimensions of the drivers of change within higher education.
The Global Debate on Higher Education
- Ministry of Education, Nurturing Our Young for the Future, Singapore (PDF), March 2010
- OECD, 21st Century Learning: Research, Innovation and Policy (PDF), 2008
The National Debate on Higher Education
- AACU, It Takes More than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success (PDF), Hart Research Associates, April 2013
- AAAS, The Heart of the Matter (PDF), Cambridge, MA, 2013
- Pew Research Center, The Future Impact of the Internet on Higher Education (PDF), July 2012
- Michael Crow, Innovating US Higher Education (PDF), April 2011
- Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring, The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out (PDF), San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass, 2011
- AACU, The LEAP Vision for Learning: Outcomes, Practices, Impact and Employers' Views (PDF), Washington, D.C., 2011
- Michael Crow, Differentiating America's Colleges and Universities, Change (PDF), September/October 2010
- U.S. Department of Education, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology (PDF), March 2010
- AACU, The Quality Imperative (PDF), Washington, D.C., 2010
- AACU, College Learning for the New Global Century (PDF), Washington, D.C., 2007
The CSU on its Role in Higher Education
- Timothy P. White, Innovation in the New Ecology of Higher Education (PDF), October 2013
- Little Hoover Commission, A New Plan for a New Economy: Reimagining Higher Education (PDF), October 2013
- Hans Johnson, Higher Education in California: New Goals for the Master Plan (PDF), Public Policy Institute of California, 2010
- Timothy P. White, State Must Invest in Higher Education (PDF), October 2012
- CFA White Paper, Quality Higher Education for the 21st Century (PDF), 2012
CSU, Chico on its Role in Higher Education
- Paul J. Zingg, Getting It Right (PDF), Convocation Address, fall 2013
- Paul J. Zingg, Beyond the Fence (PDF), Convocation Address, fall 2012
- Paul J. Zingg, Looking Backward, Moving Forward (PDF), spring 2012
- Paul J. Zingg, A Clearing in the Distance (PDF), Convocation Address, fall 2011
YouTube and TED on Creating Our Future
- Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms(opens in new window)
- Ken Robison: How to escape education's death valley(opens in new window)
- Liz Coleman: A call to reinvent liberal arts education(opens in new window)
- Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity...(opens in new window)
- Daphne Koller: What we are learning from online education(opens in new window)
On the Nature of Possibility Conversations
- On the Nature of Possibility Conversations (PDF)
- William N. Isaacs, Dialogic Leadership (PDF)
- The World Café Presents ... Café to Go! (PDF)
- Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging 1(opens in new window)
- Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging 2(opens in new window)
- Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging 3(opens in new window)