Broken Brackets: Lessons for Higher Education Leaders
As silly as it may sound, March Madness teaches a valuable lesson. You can rely on statistics, but if they are analyzed without looking at the whole picture, there is a risk of missing and planning for anomalies. Higher education operates with a mindset that postsecondary goals and achievements are primarily for students who can afford it.
Gaming the System
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Feeling Lucky?
“We can change the world for the better, one person at a time.” ~ Bob Chapman
Closer Than They Appear
Students’ higher education dreams are closer than they think. We tend to waste opportunities by looking back at what could have been. Dreams, like fires, take a little work to get going, they need someone to fan the flames and protect them from the wind, but once the embers begin to burn, the fire is hard to put out.
How You Finish
Institutions need to revisit their mission and really ask themselves, why. Why do they exist? But most importantly, how do we continue to meet the needs of students and society when what we have always done is not possible right now? Now is the time for institutions to rethink how to deliver effectively deliver education that provides opportunities for all students who face an unknown future.
When It Means Something
“If you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.” ~ Michael Lewis