Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Dr. Vernon Dunn, director of The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering at the National Academy of Engineers, first met Williams at one of the summer programs Williams ran at Xavier. Dunn says he speaks with Williams daily, seeking advice on managing people, navigating spaces, and how to best lead his program of young engineers.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

President Blake's journey to his current position at Georgia State has been a bit different from those of many other academic leaders. From a childhood of pumping gas and bookkeeping for the family business to a career in software engineering, he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Very similar to software engineering.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

He serves on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI); the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Board on Higher Education and Workforce ; the American Council on Education (ACE) Board ; and the Association of Governing Boards (AGB) Council of Presidents.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

This creates stratification within the high school of AP/IBAs and dual enrollment or concurrent enrollment based on where the high school counselor, teacher, or athletic coach advises the student to go. Among her accomplishments, she is most proud of her two children – Conner (27), an engineer, and Allie (24), a lawyer.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 9, 2024

A senior engineering faculty member and some associate business and science deans said, ‘We want to have a conversation with you. Why have you never talked to the university? That doesn't include the hundred professors and other people on campus who advise students one-to-one. What are you doing?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 25, 2023

We try to do that in a very focused way, to match emerging opportunities and emerging resources, to create more platforms and more engines for more of that matching." The biggest killer of innovation initiatives is when the university president or CEO or business unit leader charters a person or a group and says, 'You are my discovery group.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks advises them: “Read. I'm teaching people welding and diesel mechanics and electrical engineering, and those things are wonderful, but those students aren't reading a lot of classic literature. And so that's been so lucky.” I'm always sending my leadership team things to read.

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