1st Edition
Future-Proofing the University Innovations in Learning, Technology, and Finances in the Age of AI
1. The Need for Innovation in US Higher Education 2. Adapting to the Financial Realities of Higher Education: Balancing Tradition and Change 3. Entrepreneurial Cultures and Lessons for Higher Education 4. The Emergence of New Universities in the 21st Century 5. Teaching Innovation at the Top R1 Universities 6. Rapidly Growing Universities 7. AI goes to College: Higher Education in the Age of AI 8. Reimagining the Residential University 9. Making the Future-Proof University
Biography
Bryan Edward Penprase is the Vice President for External Academic Relations and Sponsored Research at Soka University of America, USA, and has been a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, Stanford University and Harvard University.
“In Future-Proofing the University, Professor Bryan Penprase draws on an extensive analysis of global experiments in higher education to articulate a compelling vision for institutional renewal. Writing from extensive experience designing and studying new universities worldwide, Professor Penprase provides a thoughtful synthesis of the most important innovations that are reshaping, and more importantly, must reshape higher education—providing hope and direction in a time of uncertainty and adversity.”
—Sanjay Sarma, Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, inaugural President of MIT’s New Educational Institution, USA.
“Although many colleges are struggling, Bryan Penprase makes the compelling case that higher education as a sector is entering an exciting world of opportunity and innovation. This volume covers it all—from new liberal arts models to innovative research-first universities—and will leave you optimistic about the possibilities ahead.”
—Michael Horn, Cofounder of Clayton Christensen Institute; lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA.
“Bryan Penprase delivers a bold, deeply informed roadmap for reinventing universities in an age of AI and disruption. His vision of future‑proof institutions as entrepreneurial, mission‑driven, and profoundly human offers exactly the kind of hope higher education needs now.”
—Noah Pickus, Head of Global Strategy and Partnerships & Senior Advisor to the Provost, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Duke University; Founder, Future Universities Alliance, USA.
