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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2002, the Armory Foundation launched Armory College Prep (ACP) to help students training at the Armory Track attain a college degree at no cost to participants. Through its Armory Foundation, it motivates youth from around the city by offering competitive track and field along with educational programming and co-curricular activities.

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CBE Learning Platform Architecture White Paper

eLiterate

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of consulting for the Education Design Lab (EDL) on their search for a Learning Management System (LMS) that would accommodate Competency-Based Education (CBE). By 2002, I had given up, writing instead about instructional design techniques to make recyclable learning objects.

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Improving Presidential Tenure and Effectiveness in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 170 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Podcast Highlights The process for onboarding presidents includes hiring a search consultant , identifying a screening committee that’s representative of the university, gathering and narrowing down a pool of candidates, and bringing those candidates in for a 60- or 90-minute interview. Recommendations must also go to the president.

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Using Tentacular Pedagogy to change the HE culture

SRHE

I have been cultivating ‘Tentacular Pedagogy’ (TP) for 24 years as a HE teacher and consultant. This concerns creative thinking ( Krathwhol 2002 , Marton and Säljö 1976 ) encompassing everyday creativity and disruptive invention alike ( Kaufman & Beghetto 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Creativity, Community and Co-Creation.

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Effective University Leadership – What Does It Take?

The Change Leader, Inc.

For instance, Dr. Robert Gates brought deep experience working in the federal government along with time spent in academia to Texas A&M Universitys presidency from 2002-2006. put a Glock to their heads ), a former consultant (Bain & Co) and JP Capital Partners (private equity firm) who served as president of Mount St.

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Navigating President Turnover: Higher Ed Leadership Challenges: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 169 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

He served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) for 13 years (2002-2015), president of the Ohio State University for four years (1998-2002), and president of the University of Maryland, College Park for 10 years (1988-1998). I did that in 2002 and stayed in that position until 2015 when I stepped down.

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

In 2002 the chairs of SRHE’s main committees had reached the end of their terms of office, but SRHE glitterati Maria Slowey and Rosemary Deem had been persuaded to chair Research Committee and Publications Committee, respectively. Email rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk , Twitter @RobCuthbert.