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LAOP 2023 · No. 02
Chris Lynne
President, University of Phoenix (at the time of recording)
There's a lot of turbulence all around us right now, and I believe one antidote can be the connection and community that we build.
Chris Lynne
Chris Lynne, then president of the University of Phoenix, welcomed us to the fifth summit by describing who his university serves: students averaging 38 years old, most of them working, two thirds caring for dependents, 60% the first in their family to attend college. Nearly every reason they fail to finish, he said, comes from life rather than the classroom. He walked through how Phoenix uses data and skills-mapped courses to meet them, and its plan to become a nonprofit.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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