Leadership in the Age of Personalization Docuseries

LAOP 2020 · No. 10

Higher Ed's Reinvention

Nancy Hubbard; Sandeep Krishnamurthy

From the recording

We teach innovation, we teach creativity. How dare we turn around and say we're not willing to do it ourselves? Shame on us.

Nancy Hubbard

About this episode

Nancy Hubbard, business dean at the University of Lynchburg, promised to upset just about everyone, and did: tenure breeds complacency, she said, and many academics have never held a job where they could be fired. She reminded us that half of today's college students are over 25 and most of them work. Sandeep Krishnamurthy of the University of Washington Bothell described the tyranny of teaching to the average student, and a transcript that proves what graduates can do.

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