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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

He explained how he's likely to benefit from his current experience: "I didn't realize how much of these academic and student affairs, the learning and research environments, are actually on the vice chancellors' and vice presidents' plates. It starts creating a culture that, when something's wrong, it's okay to say it.

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She quickly recognized that certain hierarchical modes of operation don't work very well in a pandemic: "We had to bring together teams with different expertise, make decisions in real time, translate those decisions into actions, and then be able to communicate broadly about what we were doing. Luckily, we didn't have to do all that.