Best Books on the Future of Higher Ed

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Blog followers and colleagues over at OnlineUniversities.com (no longer operating) posted a list of the top 10 best books on the future of higher ed. I thought I would share it with you.

Here’s the list:

1. Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It
2. The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
3. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
4. Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy
5. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
6. The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
7. Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education
8. The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
9. The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
10. Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More

You can read the OnlineUniversities commentary here.

I want to add one book to the list:

Lowering Higher Education: The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

Which I’ve started recently. It certainly points to one future, and if you want that future, it can be a guide, and if you don’t, it may act as an instruction manual for navigating forward.