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117: Manu Narayan brings artful insight to board leadership at Carnegie Mellon
This week on Navigating Change we welcome Manu Narayan to the show. Manu is a truly renaissance man. He’s an actor of stage and screen. He’s an accomplished musician. He’s a writer and producer. And for all his professional creative talents, he joins us to discuss his role of Young Alumni trustee on the board of Carnegie Mellon University.
95: Building Consequential Boards with Dr. Richard Chait
Over the past month, we've talked with university presidents, trustees, and faculty, cultivating a dialog around building strong relationships between institutional leadership. In the face of strained board-president relationships, diffused shared governance practices, challenging financial and regulatory environment, stresses on the balance of leadership abound.
93: Governance — Authority, Accountability & Responsibility in Shared Governance with Dr. Stephen Fowl
This week on the show, Professor Steve Fowl joins us to share his insights as an academic leader on what makes shared governance work. As former chair of the faculty senate, Steve paints a picture of an environment in which there exists clear and effective collaboration between faculty, administration, and board leadership.
189: Preparing Grads for the World Beyond the Walls with Bentley President Gloria Larson
Bentley University President Gloria Larson returns to Navigating Change this week to share the story of her new book, Prepared U: How Innovative Colleges Drive Student Success. “How you go to college is more important than where you go to school,” says President Larson. In the book — and her work at Bentley University — Larson demonstrates the changes required for institutions to deliver both the hard skills and soft, and help cultivate graduates ready for the challenges ahead.
150: "A Voice, a Vote, or a Veto" — A Human Approach to Shared Governance
Our conversation today serves as both a preview of Howard's upcoming feature in NACUBO Business Officer Magazine, and a roadmap of three key concepts that will help you and your administrative and academic units to approach shared governance with a keen eye on the objectives you seek to achieve.
149: Gerald Hector Part 2 — The power of storytelling in driving participation across the institution
In part two of our conversation with Ithaca College CBO Gerald Hector, we take on the power of storytelling in moving the institutional mission forward. From using metaphor to explain complex financial subjects, to Hector's "Dollars & $ence" meetings, now central to his mission around campus financial leadership, his input provides valuable perspective far beyond his role as a technical finance leader.
148: Gerald Hector Part 1 — IT Insights in the Finance Office
Today, we’re talking about the CBO-CIO relationship, and the fundamental changes ahead in how we impact our most important constituency: our students.
143: Uncovering the Unknown Unknowns — A Systematic Approach to Institutional Risk Management with Janice Abraham
Within the context of academic structures, a robust discussion of risk today must include not just cooperation between academics and administration, but collaboration in preparing for risk scenarios. All this is on the table in this wide ranging conversation with our very special guest, Janice Abraham, president and CEO of United Educators.
139: Taking Risks, Releasing Control, and Strategic Planning with Valparaiso U. President Mark Heckler
Mark Heckler has served as president of Valparaiso University since 2008. In his tenure so far, the institution has achieved some notable wins: expanded facilities, expanded academic programs and a five-year campaign achieving the largest fundraising goal ever achieved by a Lutheran University. Today, Dr. Heckler is overseeing the implementation of the most expansive and comprehensive strategic plan in the university’s 150-year history.
102: The Need for Authentic Collaboration
This week on the show, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright offer suggestions and observations to help institutions break down barriers and move toward significant and authentic shared governance across the institution.
99: Lessons from AGB's National Conference on Trusteeship
Recorded straight off stage from the 2015 AGB National Conference on Trusteeship, Howard Teibel shares his reflections on trusteeship, and lessons he learned working with trustees navigating their most challenging issues. From the coming closure of Sweet Briar to the challenges of institutionalizing change, Howard and Pete dive into the importance of changing our thinking from cooperation to collaboration and shifting adversarial relationships toward finding alignment across the entire institution.
97: Dr. Larry Baker Brings Communication, Humor to Trusteeship at Des Moines University Medical Center
This week on Navigating Change, we continue our conversation on governance with trustee Larry Baker. Dr. Baker serves as medical director for the emergency department of UnityPoint health in Des Moines, but for our conversation today, his most important role is as trustee, serving as chair on the board of Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center.
92: Governance — Finding Balance Between the Board and Administration with St. Edward’s President George Martin
This week on Navigating Change, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright investigate the careful balance between the board and the president in protecting, growing their institutions.
91: Governance — AGB President Rick Legon on Breaking Norms to Build Great Boards
This week on the show, Howard Teibel and Rick Legon discuss the challenges in fostering strong board leadership to help institutions face their collective crises ahead.
90: Governance — Leadership, Strategy, & Creativity at the Top
Today we begin a series exploring governance in higher education from the perspective of leaders across the institution. In a series of conversations with trustees, presidents, faculty and beyond, Howard Teibel and Pete Wright host a dialog around authority, accountability, and responsibility for leadership.
86: AGB President Rick Legon on Board Leadership, Adaptability in the Face of Tectonic Change in Higher Ed
This week, Rick Legon shares his keen insights in the challenges facing board leadership in today’s institutions, and how the Conference on Trusteeship serves to align leaders to face them.
30: Does Higher Ed Need Saving?
There is a sense from higher ed media that with great diligence and focus, we can fix all of our institutions' ills. But the changing technological and communications landscape is pointing in new directions.
