MOOCs (massive open online courses), college in your pajamas, affordability and accessibility, the call for accountability, performance-based funding, the true definition of a credit hour, training and educating tomorrow’s workforce, the significance of a liberal arts education …

These are some of the many trends and issues facing higher-education institutions and systems today, and there are as many or more opinions about how to deal with them. But those who work in higher education generally agree on one thing — the institution of higher education must reinvent itself continuously.