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Conveying Fragility

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In retrospect, it was as far from me then as 2002 is now. I remember 2002. The Whiggish interpretation of American history was easy enough: over time, the range of people included in public life grew. I was in college before I heard anyone point out – correctly!

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Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 169 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Few are as qualified to do so as Brit, having served as chancellor at the University System of Maryland for 13 years, president of The Ohio State University for four years, and president of the University of Maryland College Park for ten years. The first is that it’s human nature to want to advance and meet new challenges.

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars. Nor are they, like the City University of New York’s 2 and 4 year colleges, dedicated to broad access and upward mobility. Input from the humanities is essential.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

The implications of the work she does are far-reaching, delivering the best outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies. Everyone else is sleeping, pretty much everywhere else on the planet. And of course the reverse is also true. 00:02:03] Drumm: Very good.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Building a Sustainable Higher Education Model: CSCU’s Partnership for Workforce Readiness: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 175 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Terrence Cheng

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Drumm McNaughton Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment. Learn how CSCU’s unification of its once-siloed community college is building a sustainable higher education model and helping improve retention and enrollment.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The British Academy points to ‘the impact and value research’ in the humanities and related disciplines ‘can deliver to policy makers and the wider public’. In all this lay the beginnings of an academic ‘research culture’, though well into the twentieth century the Fellows of Colleges did not usually have – or seek – doctorates.