Reckoning Higher Ed

Tanya Barnett has had a unique and fascinating journey through higher education. As the Director of the Office of Career Strategy at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Tanya leverages the assets afforded to higher education to partner with industry to build Fourth Industrial Revolution-ready students. Her insights likely prognosticate the future of higher education.

In higher education, it's norm is that academics experience very few academic environments, typically through their work experience. Search firms who work with universities and colleges get deeply entrenched for a period before the search and through the search completion. Natalie Leonhard, a partner with Isaacson Miller, has been working in the talent recruitment field for almost fourteen years. She oversees multiple searches simultaneously and thus has worked with an incredible number of. institutions. Listen and hear her seasoned perspective!

Many colleges and universities have built themselves on the "mentor-learner" model. To make this work, research is a critical component of institutional mission. Forces of late have imposed challenges to the proliferation of empirical study.

To explore this, Jim Montgomery, a researcher in the area of language comprehension in school-aged children, discusses some of his work and how it is critical for many universities to maintain this research mission.

Join RHE for an extensive discussion on how Dean Randy Leite, who served as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professions for Ohio University for over a decade, thinks about the role of the higher education in society.

We discuss the challenges in the face of innovation, but also the many accomplishments and strengths of institutions of higher education.

In this episode of RHE, we take a close look at the tenure system in higher education and address questions like "what is tenure? Where did it come from? What does mean to have tenure?" We also take close look at some current news that indicate a different trend towards the reduction and/or elimination of tenure.

In late January, the Kansas Board of Regents approved a policy allowing public universities in Kansas to get rid of tenured professors without cause, which is unprecedented. We will also review other headwinds that suggest the nature, of tenure is likely to change.

Welcome to the pilot episode of Reckoning Higher Ed. This fairly short episode will discuss the podcast and its intent.

Reckoning Higher Ed is as new podcast that explores the issues facing higher education today. It is no secret that with enrollment changes, reduced support, frozen tuition, technological progress all wrapped in a COVID-19 package has accelerated massive changes in higher education.

This episode provides an introduction to higher education and highlights the themes you will experience!

While I don't discuss all the types of episodes (this has been evolving), we'll have at least four types of episodes, as follows:

1. Discussions: where we explore issues facing higher education from the perspective of seasoned professionals
2. Current Issues: where a particular issue, often a current issue, is taken and discussed by the host
3. Q&A: as listeners inquire through email ([email protected]) or other venues (FB: https://www.facebook.com/ReckoningHighEd/) will be gathered and addressed.
4. College 101: Not everyone is well versed in the "academy". Some listeners may simply want to understand colleges and universities better. This category assumes little to no knowledge and gives background in various aspects of higher education. Maybe you're a grad student and considering a career in higher ed. Maybe you're a parent who has children approaching college age and want to get versed in this sphere to guide your kids better.

In some cases , there will be hybrid episodes. For example, Episode 2 is a hybrid between College 101 and Current Issues. In this situation, a current issue is raised and explored, and along the way, a certain background in a fundamental area of higher ed is provided.