Colleges and universities today can no longer afford to conduct business as usual. The pressures of rising costs and ever-stronger mandates for accountability, access and success are too strong. Students, meanwhile, have urgent questions about the return on their investment and the relevance of the education they're receiving in a 21st century context. The way we connect, communicate, and access information is changing every day.  When will these changes substantially affect education? Kamenetz addresses all these concerns and sets forth her vision of a future that includes personal learning networks, personalized learning paths, expanded peer learning and assessment, and learning that blends experiential and digital approaches. Faculty and administrators need to lead the way from the second to the "third horizon" of change by incorporating the seeds of future transformation while improving their institutions' working today.

Anya Kamenetz is the rare speaker on educational issues facing the Millenials who actually belongs to this generation. Her most recent book, DIY U: Edupunks, Eduprenuers, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (2010), tells the story of how technology - together with growing stresses on students and their families - is disrupting our traditional model of higher education, and how institutions must evolve to meet the challenge. In 2006, at the age of 24, Kamenetz published The New Economics of Being Young: Generation Debt; the series of articles out of which the book emerged earned her a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize. In the words of Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, Kamenetz offers "a thoughtful and much-needed call to rethink higher education." She is a sought-after media expert who appears regularly on major news networks; she also writes for Fast Company magazine.

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