Confidence in Higher Education?   A recent study indicates that presidents and chief financial officers have confidence in the financial viability of their institutions and the future of higher education.  These results come at a time when we are witness

GPT Update   So what’s the big deal here?  I have lived through major technological and social developments like color television, computers (no, grasshopper, they haven’t always been around), mobile phones and space travel. I expect to live though Chat

We all have lists that help direct our lives.  So does higher ed.  The National Student Clearinghouse has a list of people who have attended college but never completed a degree or other formal course of study.  It’s called the Some College No Credential

In the last episode, I looked at pipelines to the university presidency and what the future of the presidency might look like.  My observation is that if we don’t change what we put into the pipeline, that leads to the presidency, we shouldn’t expect some

A recent ACE study looks at the state of university presidents in the United States.  It provides the latest data gathered in areas like diversity, experience, tenure, and the future plans of today’s crop of institutional leaders. Much of this data is not

54.  Elvin Freytes Comes Clean Season 5.4 4/30   So where do all the EdUp podcasts come from?  How did it all start?  And what’s the story behind the best-selling book “Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education”? It all looks pretty sli

I have often advised colleagues, collaborators, and anyone else against embracing complexity. Why?  Well the not-complex answer is that complexity is the adversary of progress.  Complexity, at its core, is predictable and comfortable.  Unin

One of the themes in the book Commencement: “The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education” is leadership.  The book contains in depth discussions, as well as illuminating examples, of what leaders in higher education are thinking and doing.  I

In case you haven’t been paying attention, last November this book appeared on Amazon, co-authored by Kate Colbert and Dr. Joe Sallustio, with contributions by Elvin Freytes. It is taken from more than 100 interviews with college and university presidents

Accreditation has been in the news again recently. But not for the reasons you might think. Usually we hear about institutions that have sanctions imposed on them by accrediting bodies for any of a variety of issues related to the standards of a given acc