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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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When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. And it's really about our humanity. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance. Download on iTunes.

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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. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.” Other Ways to Enjoy this Post View the Transcript Download on Spotify Follow us to Join LIVE: UIA

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A Leadership Career in Review

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That is the human experience. Hrabowski serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies, and universities and school systems nationally; and on several foundation boards. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance. Download on iTunes.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

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When it’s all political appointees, they see it as a political tool rather than as an engine for a region or state. But the reality is that it is also the board’s job to be aware of financial problems and to push them back down to the president or chancellor before it gets to the legislature. What do people do? Is this critical?

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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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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

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Inclusive Excellence in Our Universities As the leader of a highly regarded public research university, President Sheares Ashby recognizes her role as a pathfinder for higher education: "Trying to help define and move forward inclusive excellence is everything for me. That's the core value, I think."