title: Impacting The Future of Higher Education: Insight Into a New Model That Works for Students, Academic Institutions and America
author:  Becky Takeda-Tinker 
description: "Working with Becky and CSU-Global has been like collaborating with a world-class start-up. CSU-Global is a unique university that drives innovation with its stakeholders, partners, and the industry. The work of the institution over the last few years has been incredible, and I am pleased to see that the leadership is now sharing its insights and discoveries toward newer and workplace-relevant models of higher education."<br />- Mark Protus, Director of Modern Learning &amp; Video, Microsoft<br /><br />"CSU-Global is a pioneer in competency-based education. The university, under Dr. Takeda-Tinker's leadership, acknowledged a need within the growing nontraditional student population and created a model of education to serve them. Because of CSU-Global, thousands of professionals have been able to reinvent themselves for the twenty-first-century workforce. The university provides a cost-effective, time-efficient option to attain a degree, and schools across the nation could learn from its successes."<br />- Jared Polis US Representative of Colorado
zlib_text:  Higher Education: Handbook of Theory 
  and Research
  Volume XXVIII
  
  Associate Editors
  John M. Braxton, Ph.D., Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organization, Payne Hall,
  Peabody #514, 230 Appleton Place, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203-5721, USA,
  john.m.braxton@vanderbilt.edu
  (College Faculty)
  Laura W. Perna, Ph.D., Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut 
  Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, lperna@gse.upenn.edu
  (Policy)
  Scott L. Thomas, Ph.D., School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 150 E.
  Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711, USA, scott.thomas@cgu.edu
  (College Students)
  Michael N. Bastedo, Ph.D., Center for Higher and Postsecondary Education, School
  of Education, 2108C SEB, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259, USA,
  bastedo@umich.edu
  (Organization and Administration)
  Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ph.D., Department of Educational Leadership Studies, Iowa State
  University, N243 Lagomarcino Hall, Ames, IA 50011, USA