Alumni, Family and Friends
August 24, 2016
Dr. Michelle R. Weise will discuss the importance of seeding innovation at the Sandbox ColLABorative, SNHU’s new, stunning physical space for collaboration. She’ll elaborate on the role of Sandbox as an incubator of new and creative solutions to some of the most pressing problems in higher education. Photos from this series can be viewed on Facebook and Flickr.
Dr. Michelle R. Weise is the Executive Director of Sandbox Collaborative, the research and development arm of strategy and innovation at Southern New Hampshire University. Michelle’s work in fostering innovation is an extension of her prior work as the Senior Research Fellow in higher education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Her book, Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution, co-authored with Clayton Christensen, describes the disruptive potential of online competency-based education aligned to workforce needs.
Michelle’s commentaries and research have been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Boston Globe, Inside HigherEd, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and PBS Newshour. She has also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for Fidelis Education and taught at Skidmore College and Stanford University. Michelle is a former Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Harvard and Stanford.
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