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President Michael Crow of Arizona State University details his vision for the higher education system of the future in his book, " Designing the New American University". First and foremost, universities are evolving to become more complex and adaptive comprehensive knowledge enterprises, and they must be committed to discovery, creativity, and innovation.
The stressed need for discovery among all fields of research are important as the interconnectedness between all these fields are increasing, as mentioned by President Crow: "Major discoveries in one field quickly diffuse into another - say, from economics to sociology, or from psychology into economics. In short order, powerful concepts move from the initial field to cognate disciplines and from there into language of everyday life". The process in innovating higher education is purely entrepreneurial as the goal of this innovation is to disseminate knowledge to students more efficiently and effectively, and the function of entrepreneurs is to reform a certain pattern of production by exploiting and untried technological possibility. This is all representative of the new Arizona State University he is working towards.
In designing the New American University, it is important to understand the dynamics of knowledge and the conditions at which it is transferred and shared, as mentioned by Dr. Crow: "knowledge is situated, being in part a product of the activity, context, and culture in which it is developed and used... knowledge, organizational structure, and social relations are intrinsically interrelated". As us humans evolve along with our learning methods, higher educational systems must change to meet the needs of students.
