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Professor Dan Greenstein draws on 35 years in US higher education, including controversial institutional mergers, to argue scale best protects against financial uncertainty. Joined by Duke’s Noah Pickus, he explores whether growth can coexist with institutional identity.
At this year’s HEDx Conference at UTS, students weren’t just attendees – they were embedded across the program, contributing to the hosting, and delivery of sessions. In this episode, Belinda Brear (Student Voice Australasia coordinator) and Jennifer Lowe (Swinburne University Student and Co-Convenor of the Students with Disability Leadership Collective) host a panel with delegates from vice…
The fourth episode in our series, The AI Inflection Point, this conversation looks at whether higher education’s actions around creating global partnerships has actually been effective for students, for institutions, or for the sector?
Can universities lead the AI transformation that higher education needs alone? And what does together look like when your institution is under real financial pressure? This panel brings together four leaders with very different starting points. Rose Luckin, CEO of Educate Ventures Research, has built one of the most active AI coalitions in UK schools. Noah Pickus, Head of Global Strategy and…
Lucy Marshall from the University of Sydney names what most leaders know but rarely say out loud — universities don't have an innovation problem. They have a culture problem.
Welcome to episode one of The AI Inflection Point — our six-part series recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney.
In this episode for Student Experience, University of Queensland students Madison Piper and Ben Roden-Cohen sit down with Professor Kris Ryan.
Western Governors University president Scott Pulsipher and New State University president Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich challenged universities with an uncomfortable truth.
A HEDx event at University of Technology Sydney built around one question: are we actually going to change anything, or just feel good about wanting to?
Aaron Driver and Neil Durant from the University of New England argue that universities should not wait to be disrupted by AI - they should lead the disruption themselves.
