{"id":88934,"date":"2023-10-04T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=88934"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T14:08:23","slug":"the-enemy-within-former-college-presidents-offer-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/10\/04\/the-enemy-within-former-college-presidents-offer-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Enemy Within: Former College Presidents Offer Warnings” [Rosowsky]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Enemy Within: Former College Presidents Offer Warnings<\/strong><\/a> — from forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org by David Rosowsky; via Robert Gibson on LinkedIn<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Brian Mitchell, former president of\u00a0Bucknell University\u00a0and\u00a0Washington & Jefferson College, draws on his experience to offer insight in his newest\u00a0Forbes\u00a0contribution. He also offers a stern warning: “Boards, administrators, and faculty must wake up to the new realities they now face… the faculty can no longer live in a world that no longer exists… institutional change will happen at a speed to which they are unaccustomed and potentially unwilling to accept.”<\/span> <\/strong>President Mitchell then goes on to offer some immediate steps that can be taken. Perhaps the most important is to “abandon the approach to governance where trustees are updated in their periodic board meetings.”<\/p>\n

Incremental change is possible, but transformational change may not be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Therein lies the conundrum about which Rosenberg writes in his new book. Higher ed\u2019s own systems are inhibiting needed transformational change.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Also just published was the\u00a0book<\/a>, \u201cWhatever It Is, I\u2019m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education<\/em>\u201d by\u00a0Brian Rosenberg, former president of\u00a0Macalester College. Articles on Rosenberg\u2019s observations, analysis, and cautions have appeared this month in both\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, the two leading higher education publications in the US.<\/p>\n

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Addendum on 10\/6\/23:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Higher Education as Its Own Worst Enemy<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com\/ by Susan H. Greenberg
\nIn a wide-ranging discussion about his new book, Brian Rosenberg explains how shared governance, tenure and other practices stifle change on college campuses.<\/em><\/p>\n

He argues that the institutions designed to foster critical inquiry and the open exchange of ideas are themselves staunchly resistant to both.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other would be some serious thinking about pedagogy and how students learn. Because the research is there if people were willing to take it seriously and think about ways of providing an education that is not quite as reliant upon lots of faculty with Ph.D.s. Is that easy to do? No, but it is something that I think there should at least begin to be some serious discussions about.
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\nShared governance is one of those things that if you ask any college president off the record, they\u2019ll probably express their frustration, then they\u2019ll go back to their campus and wax poetic about the wonders of shared governance, because that\u2019s what they have to do to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Enemy Within: Former College Presidents Offer Warnings — from forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org by David Rosowsky; via Robert Gibson on LinkedIn Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Brian Mitchell, former president of\u00a0Bucknell University\u00a0and\u00a0Washington & Jefferson College, draws on his experience to offer insight in his newest\u00a0Forbes\u00a0contribution. He also offers a stern warning: “Boards, administrators, and faculty must wake up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,86,115,302,36,35,3,825,44,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-law-schools","category-pace-of-change","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88934"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88956,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88934\/revisions\/88956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}