Observations, Tools, and Tactics Edits and forward by: Jack Corby Support by: John A Stevens of Stevens Strategy, LLC Contact for Further Information or Questions: mtownsley@stevensstrategy.com or mtown@dca.net. Table of Contents Forward Tip #1: Communications Tip #2:...
Presidential Leadership
The Presidential Leadership Door includes briefing papers on: performance analysis, academic structures, curriculum, institutional structure and analysis, financial performance, management skills, and other topics.
Modest Proposal For An Alternative to the Classic Four-Year Degree
Most non-professional bachelor degrees are typically structured around a strong liberal art component and include a modest collection of courses aimed at developing a basis for skills that might be needed upon entering the job market. For instance, in a 120-hour...
MEMO TO THE BOARD AND MANAGEMENT TEAM: “The Times They Are a Changing”
By Mike Townsley & Bob DeColfmacker, Last year was the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival and an appropriate time to reference Bob Dylan’s 1964 hit “They Times They Are a Changing.” The song was an anthem to the tumultuous 1960’s, and its simple...
Rules For Delegating
Presidents and chief administrative officers need to develop a fine hand at delegating authority. The blog on Scarce Resources speaks to the limited amount of time and energy that the top level administrators have.
Gauging Risk Using College Outcomes
The February 2, 2022 issue of Inside Higher Education carried the article “Using College Outcomes to Gauge Risk for Students” by Doug Lederman. [1] The article addressed how to protect veterans from choosing a college that might not survive.
Hiring a New College President
Hiring a college president is fraught with uncertainty about the capability of a president to lead an institution during a time of massive change in higher education…
Small Paper on Dashboards
The Voluntary Institutional Metrics Project has worked for two years designing a common dashboard for institutions of higher education. The purpose of the dashboard is to display the cost of a degree, the default rates for graduates, and the skills attained by graduates…