Just Change My Title to “Architect”

• Published in: Abelard to Apple p. 259
• Main Author: Richard A. DeMillo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: The MIT Press 26-08-2011
• Subjects: Academic accomplishments; Academic achievement; Academic communities; Academic degrees; Academic education; Applied sciences; College students; Colleges; Education; Educational institutions; Educational resources; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Formal education; Higher education; Mathematics education; Online learning; Pedagogy; Public colleges; Research universities; Schools; Science education; State universities; Students; Technological change; Technological innovation; Technology; Universities
• ISBN: 9780262518628; 0262518627
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8792.003.0027

For three spring days in 2009, Nam Suh and Arizona State University president Michael Crow sat shoulder to shoulder at a conference table in the village of Glion, perched above the Swiss resort town of Montreux, and considered their respective roles on the global academic stage. They were among the twenty academic and industrial leaders who had been invited to attend the 2009 Glion Colloquium on Higher Education. The topic was “Universities and the Innovative Spirit,”¹ a good match because they are both innovative men, and like innovators everywhere, they are not afraid to take risks.
Suh’s plan for the