Leaders of today’s tuition-driven colleges and universities are increasingly called to develop strategic positioning plans that tackle issues directly affecting their institutions. Key among those issues are declining student enrollment, growing public skepticism, and intensifying financial challenges.  One way to accelerate the creation of such a plan without compromising the

Horace Mann, often revered as the father of American public education, laid a powerful foundation for what we now call transformative, inclusive education. In the mid-1800s, he championed the belief that universal access to quality education was not just a privilege but a public right, a cornerstone for sustaining a

With excitement and a sense of purpose, I am delighted to announce that I will be joining Antioch University as its new President. The position is a unique one as it is coupled with the Executive Vice Presidency for Coalition for the Common Good. This joint appointment charts the next

You may have met, seen, read about, or watched her on the news. Who is she? She is the university’s new president, the leader of an Ivy League university, or even the top candidate for the U.S. presidency. She’s the first or one of the few women to hold the

Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with university leaders across the country—strategic thinkers and doers who are steering their institutions through today’s blustery headwinds. As these colleagues work to implement bold structural and cultural campus changes, they often ask a similar question: “What can I, as