Why Can’t Higher Education Change? Obstacles and Opportunities

Harvard HGSE

Resistance within traditional higher education to anything more than incremental change is profound. We will in this class explore the causes for this resistance and explore questions including the following: Why is an industry populated by so many people who identify as politically liberal so conservative when it comes to its own practices? Why are scholars whose disciplines are constantly evolving so reluctant to embrace institutional evolution? Why do colleges and universities that so…