A former university president, provost, and dean offered us this advice about how to proceed. “Don’t fight internal resistance. Work around it.” Either create a new subunit, as Southern New Hampshire University did, or a space at the periphery of the campus outside the academic core for innovation, as MIT has done. If that isn’t feasible, focus on the early or “first adopters.” There’s no sense trying to make believers of everyone. It only slows things down. Instead, find, incentivize, reward, and praise those who adopt new models and let them be the ones to talk the second wave of faculty
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