Making sense of transformations in higher education & other important social institutions.
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Like the American economy itself, the higher education sector has fractured into a K-shaped system in which the wealthy are getting wealthier while everyone else slides into financial stress and debt.
Progress amid disruption requires dynamically framing organizational values to specific constituents without losing your organizational soul.
The most important writing advice I can give is this: Punch like Biggie, don’t linger like Tupac.
Just as businesses create repeat customers, higher education can use student conversion to establish stability and weather volatility.
What if the most radical thing a university could do for its financial sustainability—and the most empowering thing it could do for its students—was to ensure they never wanted to leave?
In the face of all-time-low confidence in the value of a college education, we must focus on identifying and communicating the full value of what students gain from their degree.
Innovation can help fix a great irony in American higher education: individual gifts intended to reduce inequality among students have, on aggregate, increased inequality among institutions.
Innovation can help fix a great irony in American higher education: individual gifts intended to reduce inequality among students have, on aggregate, increased inequality among institutions.
It took US colleges and universities 400 years to finally figure out how to scale philanthropy. But it comes with a cost.
As today’s higher education leaders embrace this growth strategy, they should carefully study the lessons learned by those who pioneered it.
