Managing an Institution
How Adult-Serving Institutions Can Continue To Thrive As Interest In Serving Adults Grows
George A. Pruitt | President Emeritus, Thomas Edison State UniversityWith technological advancements, shifting demographics and a constantly evolving regulatory environment, higher education is an industry in flux—and nowhere more so than non-traditional education. As the former president of one…
MoWINs: Creating Win-Wins through Partnerships
Dawn Busick-Drinkard | MoWINs Project Director, Missouri Community College AssociationBeginning in 2011, Missouri’s community and technical colleges banded together to apply for three rounds of the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT grant program. Since the consortium was formed, thousands of…
Guiding Philosophies for Launching an Online Education Office
Robert Griffiths | Associate Vice President of Distance Education and eLearning, Ohio State UniversityIn an earlier post about the strategies I used to grow an online education office and weave online practices into the fabric of Ohio State University, I mentioned that how…
Overcoming Siloes: Promoting More Collegial Collaboration Within Postsecondary Institutions
Angela Baldasare | Senior Strategic Consultant, Civitas LearningWhy can’t we all just get along? One of my favorite things about working at a university is being surrounded by smart, dedicated colleagues who share the same goals of…
3 C’s To Help Innovative Leaders Advance Beyond the Status Quo
Julia Jackson-Newsom | Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategy and Policy, University of North Carolina at GreensboroI’ve been asked many a time why organizations that are centered around learning and knowledge generation, have a wealth of talent across a wide range of areas, and serve an…
“Change?”: How to Drive Continuous Improvement on a University Campus
Chaouki Abdallah | Acting President, University of New Mexico“When the winds of change blow, some build walls, others build windmills.” - Ancient Proverb There is a joke making the rounds of Academia recently: Question: How many faculty members…
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…