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A Thousand Flowers Blooming

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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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Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership

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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. Download on iTunes.

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

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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? Other Ways to Enjoy this Post View the Transcript Download on Spotify Follow us to Join LIVE: UIA What are you doing?

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Lessons in Innovation for Higher Ed

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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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Unconventional Higher Ed Leadership Paths

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There's another book called On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, who had been a university president and a combat infantryman in Korea at the Marshall School. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , Executive Director, University Innovation Alliance Dr. Bridget Burns is the founding Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

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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. Other Ways to Enjoy this Post View the Transcript Download on Spotify Follow us to Join LIVE: Do you know about this Dickens novel?’

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Making Higher Education Work for All Students

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He would drop off his homework, stay for tests, and then drive off to his next job so that he could pay for college and graduate as an electrical engineer. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , Executive Director, University Innovation Alliance Dr. Bridget Burns is the founding Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).