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Transformation of Higher Education: The View from 2001�
with guest expert Donald M. Norris of Strategic Initiatives and George Mason University
January 11, 2001
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Five years ago, at the very end of 1995, a single book Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century became the information technology wake-up call for thousands of senior higher education leaders. One of its co-authors, Donald M. Norris of Strategic Initiatives and a senior fellow at the Institution for Educational Transformation at George Mason University, joined us on Thursday, January 11 for a look at where we are in this transformation of higher education as the 21st century begins.
Guest Expert
Donald M. Norris is President of Strategic Initiatives,
Inc., a management consulting firm in Herndon, Virginia. He is also
a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Educational Transformation
at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and a Senior Fellow
at the La Jolla Institute. He has more than 25 years experience
as a consultant, author, researcher, and administrator. He is a
well known author and practitioner in the fields of strategic planning,
the use of information technology as a tool of transformation, and
strategic marketing for corporations, higher education and associations.
In 1994 Don was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Society
for College and University Planning (SCUP).
Prior to his consulting career, Dr. Norris, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, served a succession of universities for 13 years as a researcher and administrator: University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 1995, he was co-author of SCUP's best-selling Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century. Thousands of higher education leaders experienced that book as a wake-up call to begin addressing the issues resulting from the reality of massive, IT-induced change in higher education.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is the Executive Director of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN).
Background & Resources
Here is a thought-provoking chapter from the Diane Oblinger and Sean C. Rush 1997 book The Learning Revolution entitled The Transformation of Higher Education by Michael Hooker. And a White Paper from Pricewaterhouse Coopers by Jillinda J. Kidwell on the Transformation of Higher Education in the Digital Age For the academically-inclined, here's a journal article reference list for the University of Michigan class, "ED 875: Organizational Change and Transformation in Higher Education" taught by Marv Peterson. Marv is also deeply involved with the Kellogg Work Group on Organizational Change and Transformation in Higher Education, which has quite a set of resources on its website.
The TLT Group has links to quite a few useful resources, especially in its Visions category; and the AAHE has always published useful and interesting, related articles such as Leading Colleges and Universities as Business Enterprises by William D. Rezak and the very comprehensive Not So Distant Competitors: How New Providers Are Remaking the Postsecondary Marketplace by Ted Marchese.
EDUCAUSE frequently publishes related articles. Just a few recent ones include: Prepare Your Campus for E-Business by Jill Kidwell, John Mattie and Michael Sousa, Transforming Student Services by Robert B. Kvavik and Michael N. Handberg, Student Expectations of Information Technology Use in the Classroom by Jon Rickman and Mike Grudzinski, Education in a Digital Democracy by by Mark David Milliron and Cindy L. Miles, Technology, Higher Education, and a Very Foggy Crystal Ball by Brian L. Hawkins, The Information-Age Mindset Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education, by Jason L. Frand, Teaching, Learning, and the Impact of Multimedia Technologies by Tony Bates, and more!
Of course, Kenneth C. Green's Campus Computing Project has been busily documenting the changes in higher education computing during this past five years and the archives of James Morrison's The Technology Source are a wealth of resources.
