Educational Imaginations

Nothing to Offer

What could you do to guide a college into a tomorrow certain only in its uncertainty? Here’s a list.

Tags: higher education institutional change

Commentary | Gary Lewis, August 12, 2009 10:50 am | Comments Off

University Fuses and Pricing

Pricing requires answers to tough questions about what, why, and how a college or university does what it does. If not teaching and learning, then what? Read more.

Tags: higher education business models, higher education institutional change

Business Models, Commentary | Gary Lewis, April 17, 2009 9:44 am | Comments Off

Dear Barack – Why you also got a D on your higher education budget proposals

Rhetoric and analysis have limited power to persuade people to act. Emotion is the missing ingredient, and stories provide the best way to unite ideas with emotion. You had a wonderful opportunity to persuade the American people through story, but you essentially passed on the chance. Read more.

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Commentary | Gary Lewis, March 3, 2009 12:08 pm | Comments Off

Dear Barack – Why you got a C for your higher education budget proposals

Since I haven’t heard from him yet, I guess President Obama is too polite to challenge the low grades I gave him recently on his budget proposals for higher education. Just in case, however, I prepared a rationale. Here is the first of two parts. Read more.

Tags: higher education institutional change

Commentary | Gary Lewis, March 2, 2009 11:51 am | Comments Off

President Obama’s budget proposals for higher education

Maybe it’s time to acknowledge that no one knows how to stimulate systemic educational change. Read more.

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Commentary | Gary Lewis, February 27, 2009 1:30 pm | Comments Off

Think Twice About the Economic Stimulus Lifeline

This one is for my university friends who grapple every day with charting the future direction of their institutions. When it comes to the economic stimulus bill now being considered by Congress, you’ll want to ask yourself if manna from heaven is worth the price. Read more.

Tags: free learning, higher education business models, higher education costs, higher education institutional change

Business Models, Commentary | Gary Lewis, January 28, 2009 10:39 am | Comments Off

It’s Past Time

Suppose a data system existed and was available via an API as a web service to foster the entrepreneurial innovation needed to transform education and learning. Read more.

Tags: free learning, higher education institutional change

Commentary | Gary Lewis, December 23, 2008 11:38 am | Comments Off