Why Higher Education Needs to Be Disrupted - James Bailey, Forbes

It’s clear that American higher education needs to get off the treadmill of chasing rankings and commit to respond cost-effectively to fully half the graduating class. What will catalyze that disruption remains to be seen. The Techonomy 11 dialogue is broadly bullish on bottom-up patterns of innovation, but here the panel split. Klawe pointed to Mudd’s pioneering computer science curriculum, which boasts 40 percent female enrollment, as a model that can, and should, percolate up to the largest universities. Cabrera disagreed, arguing that models from small schools are impossible to scale to major universities or nations like India where the ministry of education estimates that it needs to establish 50,000 new colleges educate 100 million young people by 2020.