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Our Universities: Transparency

H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, Griffin, demonstrated the chimera of ultimate transparency in his novella of 1897. Over and over we see leaders, in universities specifically but in corporate and public life generally, who act as though they can control which…

Our Universities: Faulty Leadership

Leaders learn, or leaders fail.Ā  The basis of all effective leadership is as powerful as the Boy Scout Law.Ā  Its simplicity and timelessness do not diminish its value.Ā  Ward doesn’t add to it, but strengthens it. “We must be silent…

Our University: Apprenticeship for Faculty

From any perspective performance should be central to the work of faculty.Ā  Not performance judged by administration, but performance judged by peers. Nothing else ensures relevancy and quality of judgment. From the time of Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum, academic…

Our University: Private and Public Benefit

University leaders who politicize intention and talk about public benefit and public purpose as primary mission show a complete lack of understanding of institutions and learning in a free market.Ā  We exist to tirelessly serve students. Here is an inconvenient…

Our University – Faculty Leadership

On our university campuses the complexities of political activity to create accountability in public resource allocations abound as performance based funding measures evolve.Ā  If handled poorly, and without strong faculty leadership, these good intentions will be for naught, at best. …

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