America’s Hidden Economic Engines: How Community Colleges Can Drive Shared Prosperity is a short book from Harvard Education Press. Edited by Rachel Lipson, co-founder of the Project on Workforce at Harvard, and Robert B. Schwartz, emeritus professor of education at Harvard, the volume is part of a larger series on Work and Learning. The workforce…
Author: David Potash
Do We Really Have to Disagree So Vehemently?
Read broadly, across the disciplines, and it is amazing what can be found. There might be a narrow monograph here or an obscure treatise over there, but scholarship can surprise and enlighten in so many ways and fields. Come across a tight, well-reasoned work that resonates? One has to share. Matthew Levendusky is a political…
Learning to Love (and Use!) Data
Amid the sea of tutorials, reports, books and worksheets about higher education and data, finding a clearly written study of data and change management is most welcome. Please consider Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz’s Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges: A New Model for Educators. While I cannot speak to how new…
Boys to Emotionally Healthier Men
What happens to far too many many emotionally healthy boys when adolescence hits? In a few short years they transform from trusting, caring and loving teens into macho posers, lonely and fronting in attempts to be masculine. The costs are profound, at the individual and societal levels. While many might recognize the changes in teen…
Educational Leadership Primer: Round 1
If I were asked to help a new academic leader, a curious person who knew little about higher education and sought to ground themselves in their new position, I would assign (not recommend) Academic Leadership and Governance in Higher Education. This is a tome, a bible for higher education leadership. The full title includes further…
Organizational Transformation and Governing Boards: Many Ways and No One Path
ASAE, The American Society of Association Executives, is a membership group for those that manage associations, nonprofit and for profit. The organization has a research arm, a Center for Association Leadership, certifications, professional development, and a century plus history. They are good resource, and I recently came across one of their publications that I found…
AGB: Benchmarking Boards
Few of us in academia give deep and consistent thought to higher education governance. We tend to take it for granted until something significantly changes. And rarely, unfortunately, is the change easy and well received. It is understandable, for academic governance can be somewhat of an abstract concept. We are all somewhat familiar with the…