I have been a university administrator, consultant, board director, and faculty member and have worked in public, private, nonprofit, and forprofit educational institutions. Now that CoVid has pushed colleges and universities to the breaking point, I look back on some of my writing and think sadly about how our response to today’s crisis is twisted by the intransigence of higher education.
So when I pushed “publish” on today’s article in Forbes, I reflected on these other articles and wished we had done more to prepare for this moment. Am I Cassandra or like the proverbial broken clock, am I merely right twice a day?
For the record, here are the three articles.
2005: Alma Mater in the Time of Tivo (and really, do you remember Tivo??)
2012: Innovation, Hah!
2020: Nine Ways to Reimagine Higher Education
Also for the record, here are the educational organizations and institutions with which I have been affiliated, with * next to my current commitments:
University of Buffalo (student)
University of Virginia (grad student)
*Princeton University (grad student, trustee)
Columbia University (administrator)
Fathom (for-profit) (CEO/Founder)
Apollo Education (for-profit, director), parent company of University of Phoenix
*The City University of New York (Dean of Macaulay Honors College, special advisor to the Chancellor, University Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center)
*Noodle (for-profit, director)
*Arizona State University (director EdPlus, special advisor to the President)