As you may have noticed, the past few weeks have witnessed a remarkable outpouring of important new books calling for academic innovation, as experts including Arthur Levine, Scott Van Pelt, Robert Ubell, and others vie for attention.
I hope to write about those books in some forthcoming blog postings. But here I want to do something different and a bit risky: Offer a few words of caution about what often passes for academic innovation.
You might find my tone unsettling. The word I’d use to describe it is sardonic.