Strategic Adaptation of Higher Education - Navigating 2024 and Beyond - The Transformation of Higher Education by Tamara Taylor

Strategic Adaptation in Higher Education: Navigating 2024 and Beyond:

Embracing Transformation and Resilience in Higher Education Business Models

A Fundamental Rethink of the Higher Education Business Model In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education, institutions must embrace educational innovation and strategic adaptation to change. This involves recognizing new realities in the academic world to stay relevant and effective. The landscape of higher education is being reshaped by several formidable challenges that necessitate a fundamental rethink of the higher education business model. To understand why change is not just necessary but imperative, it is essential to dissect the issues that are causing institutions to falter and compelling them to seek new paths to sustainability. With evolving financial models, colleges and universities–beyond the Ivy League–need to explore sustainable solutions that balance educational quality with fiscal responsibility. Shrinking Tuition Income from Declining Enrollments and Shifting Demographics One of

December 14, 2023 June 10, 2026

Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday - A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model

A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model:

Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

Navigating a Global Shift in Higher Education The traditional business model of higher education is facing an unprecedented challenge on a global scale. For universities that don’t have the cushion of the Ivy League list, the stark reality of declining enrollment and soaring costs looms large. Today’s educational leaders are grappling with a landscape where class sizes have shrunk to nearly 70-80% of what they were just half a decade ago. This contraction is not a mere ebb and flow but a clarion call for a fundamental change in how these institutions operate. Cutting costs, a go-to strategy in lean times, has reached its limits. Universities are discovering that austerity measures alone can’t bridge the gap between dwindling revenues and rising expenses. There’s a pressing need to reassess underutilized

November 7, 2023 June 10, 2026

Changing Student Demographics in Higher Education:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 10

The changing student demographics in higher education is the topic for our 10th post in The Changing Face of Higher Ed series. Despite the focus of many on research and publications, institutions of higher education wouldn’t be what they are without students. Yet in this current world, the traditional student that many higher education institutions have come to depend on is no longer in sight, and finding new bodies to fill the chairs – or online classrooms – takes some creative measures. This blog – the last of the series – looks at the future of the student population and the changing student demographics for higher education. The Changing Student Demographics Not surprisingly, seismic generational and demographic swells are rippling through higher education. A 2017 AASCU presentation entitled, “Higher Education

October 15, 2018 July 25, 2026

The Growth of Online Education Provides Opportunities:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 9

The growth of online education has greatly accelerated. Technology continues to make its mark on college campuses across the nation. With the rapid changes in what’s available in devices and software, leaders of higher education institutions and faculty are being forced to think creatively about how to utilize and even embrace online education. Technology now offers a myriad of facets and offerings in a place where huge mainframes once were the gold standard and Apple Macintosh Plus computers were the norm. Today’s world is one in which students are digital natives who take technology for granted and non-traditional students need high-quality education delivered at a distance. Therefore, college professors and administration – many of whom are not technologically savvy – must consider the instructional potential of handheld devices, the opportunities

September 24, 2018 August 12, 2023

The Changing Role of Faculty in Higher Education Part 2:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 8

This blog – the 8th in the series – looks at the changing role of faculty members in relation to curriculum, instruction, and assessment; involvement in strategic planning; and governance. If you missed The Future Role of Faculty Part 1 post, check it out. Perhaps no one is more affected by the changes roiling higher education than faculty members. The professorship of old where the sage on the stage pontificated for hours on end has been replaced by the need to be flexible academically and adapt to the “audience.” Faculty members have had to revise their curriculum to align it with future employers’ needs, learn to teach a diverse population as well as develop ways to manage online courses, and serve as a counselor to students who may be dealing

August 14, 2018 May 27, 2026

The Future Role of Faculty in Higher Ed Part 1:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 7

What is the future role of faculty for institutions of higher learning? Colleges and universities are not known for making rapid changes, although many who work in higher education – especially faculty members — have strong feelings about the ways others need to change. Yet with change happening so quickly and in so many ways, the role of faculty members has to change. This blog – the 7th in our series about the future of higher education – examines three key issues related to the role of faculty members – tenure, adjunct faculty, and unions. The Challenge to Tenure Is tenure dated? That question is posed by Samantha Bernstein and Adrianna Kezar in their essay for The Conversation. They point to State College of Florida, which ended tenure for incoming

July 17, 2018 July 14, 2023

The Future of Public Funding in Higher Education:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 6

Part 6: The Future of Public Funding of Higher Ed The public funding of Higher Ed freefall began four decades ago (e.g., California’s Proposition 13), but it really took root three decades ago, as declining appropriations, soaring tuition, and broken partnerships started to become the norm. The aftermath has led to ugly financial battles involving policymakers, faculty, staff, students and alumni. Some colleges are running large deficits, especially when deferred maintenance costs are factored in, and there are some which are going bankrupt. To successfully surmount this pressing challenge, we at The Change Leader believe that higher education leaders must develop a new model for funding higher education which requires identifying multiple sources of funding and must be sustainable and transparent. This blog, the sixth in a series, will discuss

June 29, 2018 April 7, 2026

Facilities Maintenance and Operations in Higher Education:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 5

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 5: How is change influencing facilities maintenance and operations in higher education? Ivy-covered walls and red-brick buildings boasting large windows overlooking the commons represent the idealized perception of higher education. However, higher education leaders are finding that the beauty of these old campuses has faded because of age and is actually being threatened by enrollment decline, online education, and changing attitudes. At the same time, maintenance and operations in higher education also are changing with the advent of new technology. In the fifth of our series, The Changing Face of Higher Ed, this blog addresses the future of higher ed operations and facilities. Challenging Times Institutional leaders find themselves caught in a difficult dilemma – build, renovate or wait. A 2016 Sightlines report,

June 17, 2018 May 22, 2025

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 4: Student Issues

Part 4: Student Issues Student issues are the focus of Part 4 in The Changing Face of Higher Ed Series and drills down on student issues impacting your institution’s enrollment rate. To successfully enroll and keep students, colleges and universities will need to look at a variety of factors as they move into the future. We at the Change Leader believe these factors include the changing demographics on campus, students’ prospects for future earnings, the possibility of dropping out, and campus safety, all of which are addressed here. Changing Face of Student Enrollments The Gates Foundation has a fascinating graphic that depicts America’s post-secondary population. The graphic includes gender, age, type of school, race, financial aid, housing, dependents, learning environment, employment, and enrollment. “There’s no one-size-fits-all path to (or through) college –

May 17, 2018 June 30, 2026

The Changing Face of Higher Education Governance - The Changing Face Of Higher Ed Part 3

Improving Higher Education Governance:

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 3

Part 3: Improving Higher Education Governance Improve your Higher Education Governance to lift your university or college up to higher levels of success. Higher education continues to be in the hot seat. Institutional leaders are dealing with pressing challenges such as declining enrollments, unreliable federal and state funding, an aging faculty, and public discontent about higher education. In addition, many trends are starting to emerge that will help shape the future of our institutions. For example, Education Dive pointed to the unbundling of higher education, the transitional nature of today’s college students who transfer to multiple colleges, the return of the liberal arts education, and the infusion of augmented reality into higher education. However, this difficult time may prove to offer an important silver lining as a new model of

April 17, 2018 March 3, 2024

The Purpose of Higher Education Part 1:

A series on transforming the value proposition while keeping institutions true to their mission

The purpose of higher education is in a state of transition. What traditionally has been a stable part of Western society for so many years now must find ways to remain relevant in a time of expanding knowledge, changing societal values, and increased questioning of authority figures. Therefore, our higher education consultants at The Change Leader want to offer a series of articles that lay out where we believe higher education is going in the face of all of these challenges. There are opportunities for higher education to transform and grow. What should leaders of higher education institutions be thinking about moving forward? This first post in the series looks at the purpose of higher education. The Purpose of Higher Education: A Changing Mission One of the major challenges facing

March 28, 2018 November 2, 2024

The changing face of higher ed leadership

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 2:

The Challenges of Higher Education Leadership

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 2: Higher Education Leadership Today’s Higher Education leadership is living in a divisive and politicized environment. However, there is no more important time for true leaders to step into top administrative roles and help higher education move into the 21st century. Unlike what many of our current national and state elected officials are projecting as the qualities of leadership, higher education administrators need to embrace the true characteristics of leadership, think deeply about their institution and the challenges currently being faced, invite collaboration that includes individuals who represent various factions within the university community, find artful and clear ways to communicate, and create a vision developed and supported by stakeholders that all can buy into and move forward. This blog – the second

February 17, 2017 September 11, 2023

The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 1: The Purpose of Higher Ed

Part 1: The Purpose of Higher Ed The purpose of Higher Ed is the first in The Changing Face of Higher Ed series as it’s the most important to the success and sustainability of higher education institutions. Higher education is in a state of transition. What traditionally has been a stable part of Western society for so many years now must find ways to remain relevant in a time of expanding knowledge, changing societal values, and increased questioning of authority figures. Therefore, we at The Change Leader want to offer a series of articles to lay out where we believe higher education is going in the face of all of these challenges and what higher education leaders need to think about in moving forward. A Changing Mission The purpose of

January 17, 2017 August 6, 2026

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