Reckoning Higher Ed Jeffrey DiGiovanni

Tanya Barnett has had a unique and fascinating journey through higher education. As the Director of the Office of Career Strategy at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Tanya leverages the assets afforded to higher education to partner with industry to build Fourth Industrial Revolution-ready students. Her insights likely prognosticate the future of higher education.

In higher education, it's norm is that academics experience very few academic environments, typically through their work experience. Search firms who work with universities and colleges get deeply entrenched for a period before the search and through the search completion. Natalie Leonhard, a partner with Isaacson Miller, has been working in the talent recruitment field for almost fourteen years. She oversees multiple searches simultaneously and thus has worked with an incredible number of. institutions. Listen and hear her seasoned perspective!

Of all the purposes institutions of higher education serve, what is the ultimate? The students. It behooves RHE to garner the student perspective.

Today's episode is the first one that garners ideas from the student perspective. Our guest, Katherine Walsh, has established herself as a young thought leader. Ms. Walsh is an undergraduate student at Marquette University and was featured in the Wall Street Journal in November, 2020.

In this episode, we discuss higher education and what she sees as those things we should not let go. She also offers ideas on how we might create a "new" university.

Many colleges and universities have built themselves on the "mentor-learner" model. To make this work, research is a critical component of institutional mission. Forces of late have imposed challenges to the proliferation of empirical study.
To explore this, Jim Montgomery, a researcher in the area of language comprehension in school-aged children, discusses some of his work and how it is critical for many universities to maintain this research mission.

Join RHE for an extensive discussion on how Dean Randy Leite, who served as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professions for Ohio University for over a decade, thinks about the role of the higher education in society.
We discuss the challenges in the face of innovation, but also the many accomplishments and strengths of institutions of higher education.

In this episode of RHE, we take a close look at the tenure system in higher education and address questions like "what is tenure? Where did it come from? What does mean to have tenure?" We also take close look at some current news that indicate a different trend towards the reduction and/or elimination of tenure.
In late January, the Kansas Board of Regents approved a policy allowing public universities in Kansas to get rid of tenured professors without cause, which is unprecedented. We will also review other headwinds that suggest the nature, of tenure is likely to change.