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A data-driven, research-informed weekly newsletter on the future of higher education written from the perspectives of two economists and veteran academic leaders.
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Creative Destruction in Higher Education (opens the original)
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Critics of higher education, when they aren’t mischaracterizing rising tuition prices, skyrocketing debt, and falling market returns, often focus on what they perceive as a lack of dynamism in higher education. Sometimes this takes the form of complaints about faculty recalcitrance, sometimes about calcified governance structures, sometimes about archaic teaching styles, sometimes about our unwillingness to create new programming in response to market needs or to discontinue programming that is
Managing Across (opens the original)
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New leaders typically jump right into thinking about their responsibilities and how they will manage their direct reports. We think they should invest a similar effort in managing up and across. Last week we wrote about managing your boss. This week we focus on managing relationships with peers and support units.Like your relationship with your boss, your relationship with peers and other academic leaders can have an outsize influence on the success of your unit and your effectiveness as a leade
Managing Up (opens the original)
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Leadership writing and training often focuses on the dynamic between the leader and their team members. For our part, we provided a series of posts last spring on managing your team, building trust, and managing information.Taking a different tack, our next two posts are about managing ‘up and across’ – a p
How Government Intrusion Threatens the Research Dominance of US Universities (opens the original)
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We have previously written on the importance of institutional autonomy, and the contributions of university research to the economy and society as a whole. In this post, we bring a histo
How We Plan to Use, and Not Use, Generative AI (opens the original)
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While some readers are indifferent to who, or what, writes the content they read on Substack, many more are like us in having a preference to read human generated content. For us this preference stems from three issues: information overload, depth of expertise, and the professional ethics around sourcing and representing as your own work that is not.Information OverloadThere is already (way) too much to read on Substack, and other places, and strong signals of what is worth reading are needed. W
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