{"id":50228,"date":"2015-05-12T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=50228"},"modified":"2015-05-19T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:30:22","slug":"avoiding-sweet-briar-2-articles-from-evolllution-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/05\/12\/avoiding-sweet-briar-2-articles-from-evolllution-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Sweet Briar [2 articles from evoLLLution.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolllution.com\/opinions\/avoiding-sweet-briar-tips-institutions-nimble\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avoiding Sweet Briar: Five tips to help institutions become more nimble<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from evoLLLution.com by Richard DeMillo<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Educators and administrators who study the demise of institutions like Sweet Briar must wonder what steps might have been taken to avoid a similar fate. Could Sweet Briar have foreseen the problems ahead and taken steps in a different direction? How does a modern college or university remain agile in the harsh and ever-changing marketplace of higher education?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There is a disconnect between how a college or university functions and public perception. From research to classroom teaching, and even to administrative duties, faculty are expected to take on too much. As a result, innovation in education\u2014a university\u2019s main product\u2014often takes a back seat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When institutions become too assured of their central role, they inevitably lose ground to innovators who are better connected to the needs of students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolllution.com\/opinions\/shape-come-move-sweet-briars-path\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The shape of things to come: Five changes to move off Sweet Briar\u2019s path<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from evoLLLution.com by William G. Tierney<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To many of us, Sweet Briar College\u2019s closure is not a singular example of a mismanaged institution but the proverbial canary in the coalmine. Many of our postsecondary institutions\u2014especially under-endowed small liberal arts colleges\u2014have to start changing or they will close. What needs to happen?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I certainly appreciate those of us who make forlorn calls for the noble aspirations of what academic life might once have been and perhaps one day could become again. At the same time, given the pace of change, if colleges and universities don\u2019t get more with it, they will go out of business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 5\/19\/15:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolllution.com\/opinions\/reinventing-liberal-arts-college-collaborating-steer-clear-sweet-briar\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reinventing the Liberal Arts College: Collaborating to Steer Clear of Sweet Briar<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from evoLLLution.com by Brian Williams<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nSweet Briar College\u2019s decision to close has given heightened attention to a set of thorny questions that higher education leaders, particularly those in liberal arts colleges, have pondered for some time, revolving around a central theme: \u201cWhy do liberal arts colleges need to change their business model and what should that change entail?\u201dAs is frequently the case, the answers are much more complicated than the questions. Although similar in many respects as a group, liberal arts colleges are quite diverse in their settings, their financial circumstances, the missions they pursue and how they allocate their resources. As was recently observed in the wake of the closing at Sweet Briar, \u201cevery small college\u2019s circumstances are unique, as are the personalities of its leaders, and drawing conclusions based on what happened at other institutions may be of limited value.\u201d [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoiding Sweet Briar: Five tips to help institutions become more nimble &#8212; from evoLLLution.com by Richard DeMillo Excerpt: Educators and administrators who study the demise of institutions like Sweet Briar must wonder what steps might have been taken to avoid a similar fate. 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