Higher Education as a Public Good: A Perspective from Iceland
I recently served as a presenter for a capacity-building workshop held in Reykjavik, sponsored by the Fulbright Commission in Iceland. The program gathered international study leaders from all of Iceland’s...
Proven Tools for Academic Leaders to Successfully Lead Change
...often need more detailed discussion about their understanding of diversity and exploration of their assumptions, because diversity is a more multifaceted and complex concept than technology, for example. For detailed...
Accessibility: Making a Plan to Do What’s Right (and Required)
...the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act was passed and applied to making commercial videos accessible for those with hearing disabilities. Finally, Section 508 was refreshed in 2017 to...
Why Colleges Shouldn’t Focus on Failure
...September 10, 2014. Accessed September 20, 2016. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/10/maximize-graduation-rates-colleges-should-focus-middle-range-students-research-shows. “What Is InsideTrack Coaching?” InsideTrack Coaching for Students at NDNU, accessed September 20, 2016. “Support.” ASU Online Degree Programs, accessed September 20,...
Bottom-Line Leadership
...enough to do research. If you don’t commercialize and create jobs, what’s the point?” (http://governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/2012%20State%20of%20the%20State%20Address%20Transcript.pdf). To the faculty, such statements appear to link universities with vocational training and academic research...
Community College Recruiting: Expecting More with Less
...Ruffalo Noel Levitz (2016). 2016 Report: Cost of recruiting an undergraduate for four-year and two-year institutions. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Ruffalo Noel Levitz. Retrieved from www.RuffaloNL.com/BenchmarkReports Reprinted from “Community College Recruiting:...
Strategies for Developing and Maintaining High-performing Teams
...institutions forward. Barbara Kaufman is president of ROI Consulting Group, Inc. (www.roiconsultinggroup.com). An executive coach and educator, she specializes in leadership effectiveness and organizational development strategies for private- and public-sector...
Outreach to Students from Underserved Communities
...target students in traditionally underserved communities, particularly following last year’s College Opportunity Summit hosted by the White House. At that summit, more than 100 higher education nonprofit and college administrative...
Fundraising: Lead with Gift Officers in Mind
...(Vann et al., 2014). Typically, followers’ levels of competence and commitment inversely relate to the amount of direction or delegation. (Thompson & Glasø, 2015). Finally, I compared high performers’ preferences...
A Conversation with Barbara Lawton, Continued
<span class="excerpt_part">...campus direction; <strong>and for</strong> new <strong>com</strong>munity <strong>and</strong> alumni relationships that enrich teaching with greater relevance. There is also the potential <strong>for</strong> confusion within the chain of <strong>com</strong>m<strong>and and</strong> mission creep...</span>