A Grape Resiliency
A big part of students’ success depends on how well they connect with faculty and their peers, but it also hinges on having an environment where there is freedom to make mistakes, form opinions, and engage in debate without judgment. Sometimes breaking with tradition means that we thoughtfully set the table for the students, not the other way around.
Determining Relevance: Hanging on or Letting Go?
Here we are, approaching 2023, looking at huge and permanent changes within higher education. If your institution’s response to these trends is to hope things will be “normal again,” you should be concerned.
Thriving in Volatility
Higher education is faced with a choice: thrive in an unpredictable world or crumble into chaos allowing external pressures to drive change. Predictability and stability lead to mediocrity. Higher education has an important window of opportunity disguised as a challenge--to look beyond what was and see what is now possible. Relevance can never be taken for granted but needs to be earned every day.
Putting People First
Somewhere along the way, we stopped putting people first. “Do the right thing” has become a cliché instead of a business model. For once, history doesn’t have to repeat itself. We can still turn this ship around before it hits an iceberg. We just need to put people first.
What You Do Matters
Every individual can look in their past and recall one simple act or word of kindness that made all the difference in their life, their perspective, and their future, especially during a pandemic.