Introduction : ripe for disruption--and innovation -- Reframing the higher education crisis. The educational innovator's dilemma : threat of danger, reasons for hope -- The great American university. Puritan college -- Charles Eliot, father of American higher education -- Pioneer Academy -- Revitalizing Harvard College -- Struggling college -- The drive for excellence -- Four-year aspirations in Rexburg -- Harvard's growing power and profile -- Staying rooted -- Ripe for disruption. The weight of the DNA -- Even at Harvard -- Vulnerable institutions -- Disruptive competition -- A new kind of university. A unique university design -- Getting started -- Raising quality -- Lowering cost -- Serving more students -- Genetic reengineering. New models -- Students and subjects -- Scholarship -- New DNA -- Change and the indispensable university

1. Universities and colleges -- United States
2. Educational change -- United States