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This collection of essays by top-ranking higher education leaders and researchers represents the best of strategic thinking about the future of the academy. The Forum for the Future of Higher Education, formerly The Stanford Forum for Higher Education Futures, annually hosts a prestigious, invited conference, the purpose of which is to share and generate ideas that impact the planning and direction of higher education. These innovative ideas are gathered together in this volume.<br/><br/>Contents include:<br/>• Why can’t a college be more like a firm?<br/>by Gordon Winston, Williams College<br/>• Thinking seriously about paying for college<br/>by George R. Goethals, Williams College & Cynthia McPherson Frantz, University of Massachusetts Amherst<br/>• The market for selective private higher education<br/>by James S. Roberts, Duke University<br/>• Enabling metaphors of innovation and change<br/>by Michael J. Kelly, Georgetown University<br/>• A campus-wide approach to systems planning<br/>by Fred Rogers, Cornell University<br/>• Measuring, evaluating, and communicating administrative performance in higher education<br/>by Richard N. Katz, EDUCAUSE<br/>• Benchmarking in higher education<br/>by C. Jackson Grayson, Jr., American Productivity and Quality Center<br/>• Higher education’s information challenge<br/>by Marshall Van Alstyne, University of Michigan<br/>• The unsustainability of traditional libraries<br/>by Brian C. Hawkins, EDUCAUSE