Colleges Must Throw Open the Gates
The Atlanta Journal Constitution website posted an article which stresses the importance of rethinking current higher education practices by encouraging a more open culture that values partnerships and embraces innovation. It is essential that colleges and universities embrace a new era, grounded in purposeful innovation. The fuel for this direction rests on a model of open innovation, and an external institutional orientation that requires a strategic emphasis on valuing and pursuing new and different types of connections. Robust engagements with a multitude of organizations including governmental entities, non-profits, corporations, business groups, the media, think tanks, and other institutions of higher education add a unique substantive quality to the educational enterprise.
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