flynn014

Through most of my career, I both enjoyed and benefited from the fact that people at the main campus paid little attention to their branches.   For all the frustration and difficulty of getting programs or courses approved, the circumstances worked to our advantage.   In addition, because we were financially separate from the main campus, we developed a deeper understanding of higher education finance than most of the chairs, deans and vice presidents with whom we worked.   (Not bragging; just sharing the facts.   My experience with finance or budget administrators really was no different, because they tend to focus so strongly on cost control and risk avoidance that we found negotiations usually worked to our advantage.   Keep in mind that I am a devotee of mutual gains bargaining, so our success was mostly a matter of careful listening and addressing the interests of others, but with a strong understanding of our own interests.   Thus, i...

There is no question that lots of things are happening in higher education.   New programs and new strategies show up at a rapid clip.   As you think about the future, you will necessarily make choices about course and program delivery, and those choices will have a major impact on how attractive you are to prospective students. Consider this range of possibilities for delivery: ·       Face-to-face in a traditional classroom ·       Synchronous delivery with some students in the same classroom as the instructor and others participating through interactive video ·       Hybrid delivery, which may include asynchronous streaming videos, online elements, and occasional classroom meetings, which themselves can occur in a variety of forms; this might include use of the “flipped classroom,” which offers significant creative opportunities ·         What I’ll cal...