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Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. Increasingly, I've become convinced that the answer to this question should be "yes."
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Blog: Learning Innovation The best recent show about academia over the past few years is not The Chair , although it was pretty good. The show you want to watch if you want to understand how a university actually works is HBO’s thinly veiled academic drama, House of the Dragon.
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Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Blog: Just Visiting Here, there and everywhere, I have been hard on the spate of “education disrupted” books that cropped up during the early to middle part of the previous decade. When we’re talking about teaching and learning, academia could hardly be worse in terms of its structure and practices.
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
JUNE 9, 2022
Similarities Between Industry and Academia. President Blake's journey to his current position at Georgia State has been a bit different from those of many other academic leaders. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. But I thought it was a great synergy.
The Change Leader, Inc.
MARCH 21, 2017
Effective University leadership traits are close to superhero level – the skills, knowledge, and experience required to be an effective leader of a higher education institution are unlike that of nearly any other profession. Traditionally, universities have looked for candidates who were steeped in the world of academia.
The Change Leader, Inc.
OCTOBER 2, 2021
As we mentioned in the previous blog, this requires the board to step into a consulting role instead of only an oversight role. Additionally, each board member is a fiduciary and must act on behalf of the organization’s greatest good and have a higher standard of care than professional staff (including the university president).
UIA (University Innovation Alliance)
DECEMBER 1, 2023
We asked how she’s met these opportunities: “When I think about my role as Provost at Florida State University , at that point in my career, I was not at all certain that I wanted to be a university president. President Stokes assured us that management needn’t be a bad thing: “Some people do enjoy it.
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