Continuous Improvement and Innovation
Overcoming Common Roadblocks to Innovation
Higher Ed as a Business
“Change?”: How to Drive Continuous Improvement on a University Campus
Chaouki Abdallah | Acting President, University of New Mexico Greg Heileman | Associate Provost for Student and Academic Life, University of KentuckyTerry Babbitt | Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management, University of New Mexico
How to Circumnavigate Common Roadblocks in Changing the Status Quo: Some Guidance from Experimental Psychology
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYThere is much existing advice on what higher education leaders should do to change the status quo: Find a faculty champion, compromise, wait, etc. Here I provide some other specific…
Leading Beyond the Status Quo to Create a Culture of Innovation in Higher Education
Susan Aldridge | President of Drexel University Online, Drexel UniversityAlthough higher education is often cited as an institutional culture that is slow to move beyond the status quo, it is really no different from any other when it comes…
Putting the Shine Back on the Academic Innovation Apple
MJ Bishop | Director of the William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of MarylandThis month marks five years since I gave up my tenured faculty position to become the inaugural director of the University System of Maryland’s (USM) William E. Kirwan Center for…
Moving Beyond the Buzzword: Understanding Innovation in Higher Ed
Jill Buban | Senior Director of Research and Innovation, Online Learning ConsortiumIn April 2018, the Online Learning Consortium published The State of Innovation in Higher Education: A Survey of Academic Administrators. The report surveyed over 100 college and university administrators to…