Description: "Digital technologies are making the scarcities on which higher education is based disappear. Smith outlines how universities can take advantage of educational abundance to create a system that is more fair and just"--
Review Quotes: Included in Forbes's Best Higher Education Books of 2023 list
Winner of the Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature "If you're looking for a book that challenges higher education's status quo, questions its basic business model, and argues for a complete transformation to create greater, more affordable access to advanced education, Michael D. Smith's The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education For a Digital World is a great place to start...The Abundant University is sure to stir up a storm. It threatens many of higher education's cherished assumptions and traditions. It encourages major innovations in how advanced education is delivered and to whom. And it foresees and even encourages a dismantling of the credentialing monopoly that colleges have long protected. Get ready to hear some howling from the ivory towers...With a straightforward, conversational style, Smith succeeds in portraying the current problems bearing down on higher education and offering a set of bold solutions for a future where he envisions a college education becoming "more open, flexible, inclusive, and lower-priced." The Abundant University is a provocative book that should be read by higher ed insiders as well as those in the general public who care about expanding the reach and the impact of higher education."--Forbes