Operations and Efficiency
Meeting heightened student demands with plummeting operational budgets in a competitive and commoditized environment is no easy task for higher education leaders. Long-term viability and success require operational effectiveness and efficiency that is somewhat foreign to post-secondary management.
What Strategic Leadership Looks Like in Practice
Alison Witherspoon | Vice President of Continuous Improvement, American College of EducationStrategic leadership in education is critical to success in an ever-changing market. This message is increasingly popular in articles and at conferences geared toward education professionals. Earlier this year, I…
Leadership Competencies: A Framework for Leadership Assessment, Education and Research
Ralph Gigliotti | Director of Leadership Development and Research in the Center for Organizational Leadership, Rutgers UniversityThis is excerpted from “Competencies for Effective Leadership: A Framework for Assessment, Education, and Research” by Ralph A. Gigliotti (Emerald Publishing). This moment in time is a critical one for…
What’s Needed in Continuing Education Leadership
Lisa R. Braverman | Dean of the Petrocelli School of Continuing Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityWhen conducting research for a daylong conference that I was asked to facilitate by the American Council on Education for women in higher education leadership in 2015, I read an…
Why Continuing Education is Leading Academic Innovation
Donald Ipperciel | Chief Information Officer, York UniversityRecently, a proud mother showed me her daughter’s work on the school’s teaching platform. The fourth grader created a PowerPoint on whether the chicken or the egg came first, based…
The Positivity of Saying “No”
Larenda Mielke | Associate Provost of SMU Global and Online, Southern Methodist University"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything." ~Warren Buffet I was new at SMU. It was a time…
Similar… But Completely Different: How Graduate Program Management Differs from Undergrad
Neil Trotta | Dean of Graduate Studies, Fisher CollegeIt is not about ocean views, hot tubs and luxury amenities in the dormitories. It is more about relevant professional academic programs, the program cost, time to complete the program…
Challenging and Rewarding in Equal Measure: Five Things New Provosts Might Not Know
Sally McRorie | Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Florida State UniversityIdentifying five things new provosts might not know about the job isn’t as easy as it sounds. Most provosts are old hands at academic administration, having been deans and chairs…