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Holiday Spirits: Change Management Imperatives Distilled from the 2024 EDUCAUSE Top 10
For the last twenty-three years, EDUCAUSE – a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education – has been publishing a Top 10 IT Issues list to help IT organizations contemplate major trends and what may come in the new year. But […]
Higher Digital Partners with Credential Engine Transparency Initiatives
New partnership helps higher education institutions provide equitable access to students navigating learning and career opportunities [McLean, VA, 12 December 2023] Higher Digital announces today the availability of service offerings to help institutions add credential data to their curricula, aligning with Credential Engine’s linked open data schema, the Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL). In the […]
Surviving a Presidential Ouster Through Focus on Transformation Results
In this episode, Dr. Brenda Allen – President at Lincoln University – shares her story about becoming a stronger leader after facing an ouster early in her time as president. In the years since she was an undergrad at Lincoln, through her time as faculty at multiple Ivy Leagues, then her transition back to the […]
Overcoming Imperfect Incentives to Serve Learners of All Ages
In this episode, Dr. Lisa Vollendorf – President at Empire State University – highlights her institution’s focus not only on “first-time, full-time” students, retention, and graduation rates, but more importantly on what best serves the four generations of students enrolled. Combine programs that support that driving value with their partnerships with companies, unions, state agencies, […]
Pooling Resources to Accelerate Enterprise Change Management
Every time I go out to dinner with friends or family, I see an opportunity to split two (or more) dishes to diversify and enrich my dining experience. While my wife is often embarrassed when I do this with anyone outside the inner circle, she too has become a fan of “splitting” and apparently reserves […]
Organizational Mutations Leading to Higher Ed Evolution
In this episode, Len Jessup – President at Claremont Graduate University – not only is first to ask if he is a “mutation,” but shares how he came to his current role while explaining the evolution of the presidential career path, driven by governance boards’ desires for change agent leaders, and other mutations leading to […]
Alignment as a Catalyst for Positive Change
In this episode, Tom Andriola – Vice Chancellor for Data and Information Technology, Chief Digital Officer at the University of California, Irvine – shares how aligning across the critical elements of people, culture, technology and data acts as a catalyst for positive change. References: Tom Andriola, Vice Chancellor for Data and Information Technology, Chief Digital Officer at […]
Reimagining the Professor/Student Power Dynamic Using AI
For centuries, most of higher education has relied upon a relatively “authoritarian” teaching model: deeply educated professors would share their academic knowledge and test students on their ability to echo that knowledge in classic forms that fit the structures accumulated by academia. With the exception of the creative arts, it was more the exception than […]