** My Intellectual Flakes **

When I interviewed some of the professors for a project I worked for, there was one theme emerged concerning the change at higher education. The successful innovation at universities has been viewed as a process of both top-down and bottom-up. I bumped into a paper today which has some pretty good discussion on this:

The process of change must be initiated from both ‘bottom up’ and‘top down’, with the bottom having the knowledge and the top the power. Either may be the initiator, but the first real step is for both top and bottom to be committed to the change.The top must use its power, not overtly and directly, but to facilitate the work from the bottom and to provide conditions under which it can prosper.

The article has some pretty good discussion on the change process in the context of higher education