Susquehanna President's Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

At the Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in early December, Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, said “Being a university president is the hardest job in America.” Being a university president isn’t the hardest job I have had. Being a university president isn’t even the mostly intellectually taxing job I have had.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“Most of the job of the presidency is bad news. I remember years ago when Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense, I heard him say, ‘By definition, if a decision comes to me, then it's hard because if it was easy, it should have been made before.’ If things are going well, you're really not needed that much. That was powerful.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

He recently led a project to develop a data-driven metric for identifying rural-serving institutions (RSIs), and he has been invited to speak by a number of organizations, including the American Association of State Colleges & Universities, National Scholarship Providers Association, and the Oregon Community College Association.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2023

I served there for about six years and then became the president of Southeastern University. Kent Ingle 03:19 Oh, definitely. Those are all traits that are incredibly important for university presidents. Then you add Pell grants to that and other scholarships. Does it feel like a whirlwind to you?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

If we’re talking about earning a degree as a metric of success, it’s not an insurance policy where you’re definitely going to find a good job. However, there’s still no guarantee that they are definitely going to land themselves a good job by age 30. What are three takeaways that university presidents and boards need to do?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

It’s atypical for most university presidents. Before we get into our topic today about reimagining universities for the future, give our listeners a little taste of who you are and where you’ve come from. Instead of being abstract, I want to give you one example of what we do. This, by definition, is exclusionary.

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