This book proposes a new theory of change in American higher education that explains the resilience of colleges and universities, and demonstrates how they adapt to new social and economic conditions. It argues that the demands for new educational missions, new sources of capital to finance innovation, and new organizational and governance models lead to the creation of institutional diversity. Using the theory of "accretive change" to predict future changes, this volume asserts that the rise of artificial intelligence and new investment models within the field of social entrepreneurship will shape the next wave of universities and educational institutions.

Traditional ethical theories developed to help guide daily interactions with those around us, those local, human-scale activities that have characterized the social lives of people for millennia. Today some of the most urgent problems are global in scale: climate change, extreme poverty, genocide, and terrorism, to name a few, and these demand a moral response from each of us. The traditional building blocks of ethical theory, in particular the idea that personal responsibility attaches to our intentions and the consequences of our actions, are very difficult to apply to large scale problems, since most of them overwhelm our efforts to affect them. Still, people of conscience want to feel that their choices and actions make a positive difference. We need a new theoretical framework for ethics--a macro theory-- that is suited to the realities of our contemporary global awareness.