Amid the sea of tutorials, reports, books and worksheets about higher education and data, finding a clearly written study of data and change management is most welcome. Please consider Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz’s Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges: A New Model for Educators. While I cannot speak to how new…
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Posts about the wide realm of higher education from a deanly perspective
Educational Leadership Primer: Round 1
If I were asked to help a new academic leader, a curious person who knew little about higher education and sought to ground themselves in their new position, I would assign (not recommend) Academic Leadership and Governance in Higher Education. This is a tome, a bible for higher education leadership. The full title includes further…
Organizational Transformation and Governing Boards: Many Ways and No One Path
ASAE, The American Society of Association Executives, is a membership group for those that manage associations, nonprofit and for profit. The organization has a research arm, a Center for Association Leadership, certifications, professional development, and a century plus history. They are good resource, and I recently came across one of their publications that I found…
AGB: Benchmarking Boards
Few of us in academia give deep and consistent thought to higher education governance. We tend to take it for granted until something significantly changes. And rarely, unfortunately, is the change easy and well received. It is understandable, for academic governance can be somewhat of an abstract concept. We are all somewhat familiar with the…
The Dean of New Things Embraced Change
In the past half-century public higher education, like so much of America, has changed dramatically. It’s a vastly different landscape, with millions more attending college as the economy – the world – demands new skills, new knowledge, and new ways of doing business. The City University of New York, one of the largest systems in…
Strong Towns For All
Charles Marohn’s Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity is a most provocative book. Since reading it I haven’t been able to look at the built environment around me in quite the same manner. The outgrowth of popular blog, Strong Towns describes a movement in urban planning and the journey to its creation.…
Next Generation Equity
For the past decade forward thinkers in higher education have been researching, advocating and exploring equity as a goal and catalyzing concept. Much has been learned throughout the academy, from the examination of individual assignments in a course section all the way to system-wide policy and analysis. Equity thinking is now found throughout higher education,…