Higher Ed Highlight Series: Exploring the Redesign of our Higher Education Ecosystem.

Over the past few years, I have spent countless hours identifying the most innovative programs, practices, and universities emerging within our nation's higher education ecosystem. During my time spent as a student, as well as my time spent as a University Innovation Fellow at Arizona State University, I have come to appreciate a multitude of emerging innovations that deserve to be highlighted and even replicated to better serve an evolving educational learner landscape. These innovations might come in the form of new educational credentials, unconventional delivery methods, creative methods of supporting students, disruptive policies, or even the application of new technologies.

Going forward, I will highlight dozens of these innovations within a weekly "Higher Education Highlight Series" to showcase the breadth and depth of this emerging landscape. The innovations that I highlight will be selected based on a few key principles:

• Potential impact if adopted;

• Likelihood of adoption at scale;

• Programmatic clarity;

• Practicality toward solving a problem or creating a new market; and

• Genuine "wow" factor.

Please join me on this journey as we begin to explore the programs, practices, and universities that are redesigning our nation's higher education system.

Next Post: The Emergence of the "Hybrid College Model." ASU Local and the scalable college of the future.

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About the Author:

Lukas Wenrick spends his days working to develop innovative solutions to the most complex issues universities face. He does so to ensure that the most marginalized students may pursue an alternative trajectory than the one laid out by their zip code. He believes that universities and other educational enterprises have the duty to expand educational opportunity to as many individuals as possible and that excellence should be judged by the students that an institution includes, rather than those that it excludes.​

Lukas holds a Master's of Education in Higher Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science Education from Wright State University. His experiences at both an open-access public university and an elite private institution inform the work he does every day. Currently, Lukas serves as a Program Manager within the Office of Applied Innovation at Arizona State University where he works to leverage the ASU enterprise to resolve educational and social inequities in the world.

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