Improvisation and Innovation: Rhetoric and Reality - Sponsored by Tuition Management Systems

We are unlikely to achieve the kind of institutional agility we desire—openness to new ideas, responsiveness to a changing world—if we persist in addressing questions of innovation, improvisation, and collaboration outside the context of our institutional reality. Hence the address will focus on issues of institutional design as they relate to the likelihood that improvisation and fresh thinking (for that matter, thinking at all) is a serious option.