A Case Study in University Transformation

Abstract

The most predictable feature of modern society is its unpredictability. We no longer believe that tomorrow will look much like today. Our world is once again entering a period of dramatic social change, perhaps as profound as earlier periods such as the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution—except, while those earlier transformations took centuries, today’s often take only a few years. The challenge, both to us as individuals and to our institutions, is to learn to adapt to and thrive in an era of breathtaking and accelerating change.