{"70802":{"#nid":"70802","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rich DeMillo Publishes New Book on Future of Higher Education: Abelard to Apple","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECheck out the Center for 21st Century Universitites\u0027 Director Rich DeMillo\u0027s new book \u003Cem\u003EAbelard to Apple: the Fate of American Colleges and Universities\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESummary taken from Amazon:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EThe vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle--reputable educational institutions, but not considered equal to the elite and entrenched upper echelon of the Ivy League and other prestigious schools. Richard DeMillo has a warning for these colleges and universities in the Middle: If you do not change, you are heading for irrelevance and marginalization. In Abelard to Apple, DeMillo argues that these institutions, clinging precariously to a centuries-old model of higher education, are ignoring the social, historical, and economic forces at work in today\u0027s world. In the age of iTunes, open source software, and for-profit online universities, there are new rules for higher education. DeMillo, who has spent years in both academia andin industry, explains how higher education arrived at its current parlous state and offers a road map for the twenty-first century. He describes the evolving model for higher education, from European universities based on a medieval model to American land-grant colleges to Apple\u0027s iTunes U and MIT\u0027s OpenCourseWare. He offers ten rules to help colleges reinvent themselves (including \u0022Don\u0027t romanticize your weaknesses\u0022) and argues for a focus on teaching undergraduates. DeMillo\u0027s message--for colleges and universities, students, alumni, parents, employers, and politicians--is that any college or university can change course if it defines a compelling value proposition (one not based in \u0022institutional envy\u0022 of Harvard and Berkeley) and imagines an institution that delivers it.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHear Rich discuss his book in his \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/youtu.be\/4JyvKkLrSEM\u0022\u003EAuthors@Google\u003C\/a\u003E talk.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELinks to purchase the book:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Abelard-Apple-American-Colleges-Universities\/dp\/0262015803\u0022\u003EAmazon Online Bookstore\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/abelard-to-apple-richard-a-demillo\/1100739299\u0022\u003EBarnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27504","created_gmt":"2011-10-03 15:45:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:22","author":"Himani Manglani","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-10-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13481","name":"C21U"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:thompson2@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMary Claire Thompson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}