The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself

James Shulman is vice president and chief operating officer of the American Council of Learned Societies and a former senior fellow at the Mellon Foundation. In his book The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself, he argues that the spiraling cost of tuition must be contained, and that colleges and universities can address it by partnering with mission-driven, market-supported organizations.
Shulman will be interviewed by Mitchell Stevens, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education.
This is the first event in the 2024 Academic Innovation for the Public Good book series, co-organized by Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College. Program partners include the Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (Bentley University); Brown University School of Professional Studies; Dartmouth College; Harvard University; Mount Holyoke College; Notre Dame Learning (University of Notre Dame); Penn’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation; and University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation.