Yesterday’s chalkboard served a less complicated world than today, in a time before the worlds of economics, business and politics intersected and began to demand that educators and their institutions produce graduates who are prepared to enter a rapidly evolving job market. This inherent tension has resulted in a series of large and small shifts that together have stirred up a perfect storm of change. On the one hand, storms can cause destruction of old models and ways of being; on the other hand, the need to rebuild and remodel offers an exciting array of opportunities to rethink the delivery of education.