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A Road to Somewhere
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 7/31/2020 | 0 comments
Last month I asked our readers to contemplate whether or not we’re “on a road to nowhere” as we prepare for the fall and beyond. Today, I want to take a look at where we are on that road and consider what this journey may look like for the next several months. So where are […]
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Avoiding a “Road to Nowhere:” What We Must Do This Fall
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 6/22/2020 | 1 comments
In 1985 The Talking Heads released “Road to Nowhere.” That song, and that metaphor, have been on my mind a lot lately as I think about where higher education is going in the fall and beyond. It’s all too clear that we are going somewhere, but I’m not sure that any of us are very […]
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Fall and Beyond: Higher Education in the Age of COVID-19 and Other Disasters
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 5/8/2020 | 1 comments
Even before the COVID-19 global pandemic, higher education was struggling to make sense of what David La Piana and Melissa Mendes call a VUCA world in The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution: Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World. Originally coined by the US military to describe a post-Cold War world, VUCA stands for: Volatile– The world […]