Higher Ed in 2025: Thriving Through Strategic Adaptation

Higher Ed in 2025: Thriving Through Strategic Adaptation

The future may be uncertain, but that doesn’t mean your institution has to face it unprepared. By focusing on foundational priorities—accreditation, state licensure, strategic planning, and institutional effectiveness—you’ll be positioned to tackle whatever challenges come your way.

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Cooking Up Change: Higher Ed Lessons from Julia Child

Cooking Up Change: Higher Ed Lessons from Julia Child

The ethos of Julia Child's teaching—embracing innovation, learning from mistakes, and engaging audiences with authenticity—can profoundly drive the trajectory of online higher education. As we face a future brimming with digital potential, it's imperative that educational institutions imbibe these lessons, transforming to meet the needs of a globally connected, ever-changing student demographic.

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Business Lessons From a First-Time Father

Business Lessons From a First-Time Father

Even a version of her future where she eventually plays for the WNBA has to, ultimately, occur in reality. And reality has rules. In higher education, before I start telling everyone I’m opening the greatest University that New York City’s ever seen, I should probably check if the New York state licensure agency is even taking applications…

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A Grape Resiliency
Resilience, Adaptability, Change, Chicago, Higher Education Susan Chiaramonte Resilience, Adaptability, Change, Chicago, Higher Education Susan Chiaramonte

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.

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Generative AI Will Be Exactly as Scary as Higher Education Makes It

Generative AI Will Be Exactly as Scary as Higher Education Makes It

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but AI isn’t going anywhere. Adapting to this technology will require learning something new. It will require rethinking how we teach writing. It will require revisiting plagiarism policies. But it’s worth it. Chat GPT is an opportunity for your department/institution to be early adopters. Don’t be the last school still using carrier pigeons.

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