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Variety and Vitality

  Sixth in a series on public/private higher education. A private nonprofit structure for higher education in Illinois as proposed by State Sen. Bill Brady, in SB1565, is appealing because it might provide more choices for students.  Vanilla offerings abound…

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: Outsourcing

I have seen Enterprise Rent-A-Car establishments on university campuses. Chartwells and other food providers are common sights at our institutions of higher learning. And, it has finally happened. Teaching is also being outsourced now.  Both Florida Atlantic University and Missouri…

Our Universities: Campuses and Systems

University systems are political organizations. Universities are academic organizations. The two coexist symbiotically only with determined leadership. In a speech opening the legislative session, House Speaker Dean Cannon said Florida’s public university system is “racing toward the middle,” a hodgepodge…

Our Universities: Faulty Leadership

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

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