One can easily use words like comprehensive, thoughtful, balanced, insightful, and rigorous when talking about this book. The understanding that unfolds of the interaction between one of the most extraordinary organizations of our time and a rapidly changing global society is deep and dramatic.

The modern university is one of the most complex organzational structures that has ever come into being. How will such a complex organization adapt to the new realities? Currently there is a good deal of discouse on the upheaval and change that will be experienced as society becomes more information-based and globalized. But here is a book that brings those issues into a sharp, applied focus...