This past fall, I had the opportunity to attend the Strada  Foundation’s State Opportunity Index event in Washington DC as part of some advisory work I was engaged with in association with the foundation.  One of the principles discussed at the conference involved higher education access leading to completion to opportunity.  I heard someone wiser than me recently say, “access without completion is a broken promise” – truer words were never said.  Similarly, this past fall,

As part of my dissertation, I did a case study about an institution that transformed organizationally over the course of many years.  The research was fascinating, and exhausting, and allowed me to learn about the journeys associated with other institutions that transformed.  Each institution’s transformation involved some common themes between them I will share here for leaders interested in their own sustainability given the current higher education headwinds.  Note that ea

Following up on last month’s post on what I learned from Jeff Selingo’s presentation at NACAC, this month, I can say I actually finished reading Angel Perez’s book and am therefore able to make notes from it (versus Jeff’s which I have not finished).  In a word, it rocked – ok, so two words.  First, just a shout out thank you to Angel for giving me the opportunity to review the book.  Second, thank you in advance to Angel for agreeing to be our keynote speaker at year two of

At the NACAC Conference in Columbus (OH), I had the opportunity to listen to two amazing authors – Jeff Selingo and Angel Perez – talk about their new books.  This month’s post will be somewhat of a random assortment of thoughts based on one of their presentations.  Next month, I will share thoughts on the other. During Jeff Selingo’s presentation, he was asked about future considerations or implications for higher education, and what he would recommend to families as they se