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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college’s dean, Dr. David E. The presentations spark interest and possibly ignite a passion for learning more, which is how he found his career in academia. Richardson, will review the proposal and give comments and suggestions. There will be a university meeting in January to review the proposal. “We

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The Changing Role of Faculty in Higher Education Part 2: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 8

The Change Leader, Inc.

Faculty also are seeing an increased emphasis on students pursuing interdisciplinary fields; in fact, the number of students who are majoring in these types of fields has increased by almost 40 percent since 2003. This has required the redesign of general education requirements.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

But I know in academia, management is considered the dark side. And over time, I've learned something from every leader that I've ever worked with, whether it was the program chair, the department head, the dean, and then later as I watched college presidents at my own institutions and elsewhere. That's what attracted me.