http://madisonian.net/2006/02/24/the-end-of-summers/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Thu, 10 May 2012 20:32:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/02/24/the-end-of-summers/comment-page-1/#comment-21192 madisonian.net » On the University Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:56:27 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=560#comment-21192 [...] This is mostly right. He’s right to see the issue in symbolic terms, and he’s right that American research universities have to confront an “Innovator’s Dilemma” moment. He’s wrong, though, in one respect. He’s wrong to jump from that premise to the conclusion that as Harvard’s inertia takes it over the precipice, the rest of American higher education must follow. Compare the follies in Cambridge with the flourishing in New Haven. Is it time for Harvard to concede that Yale knows something that it doesn’t? Trackback URL: http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/03/01/on-the-university/trackback/ [...] [...] This is mostly right. He’s right to see the issue in symbolic terms, and he’s right that American research universities have to confront an “Innovator’s Dilemma” moment. He’s wrong, though, in one respect. He’s wrong to jump from that premise to the conclusion that as Harvard’s inertia takes it over the precipice, the rest of American higher education must follow. Compare the follies in Cambridge with the flourishing in New Haven. Is it time for Harvard to concede that Yale knows something that it doesn’t? Trackback URL: http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/03/01/on-the-university/trackback/ [...]

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