Day 2 Agenda | Innovating Leadership
Higher-ed leaders today need a flexible mind-set, emotional intelligence, and a willingness to rethink traditional strategies using the latest technologies and innovative approaches. The second day of the Chronicle Festival will dig into these essential attributes to spotlight how college leadership must change to move institutions forward.
12:30-12:35 PM ET
Welcome
12:40-01:30 PM ET
Leadership Panel: What It Takes to Be a Leader Now
“The United States is experiencing profound, unrelenting, and accelerating demographic, economic, and technological change,” write Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt in their book, The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future. The seismic shift, which the authors compare to the Industrial Revolution, will upend higher-ed institutions. It will also upend higher-ed leadership, requiring innovative thinking and management. This session will dive into how college presidents and provosts, as well as other senior academic administrators, should adapt.
Speaker | Arthur Levine
President, Brandeis University; President Emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University
Speaker | Nancy Gonzales
Executive Vice President and University Provost, Arizona State University
01:35-01:55 PM ET
Sponsor Segment presented by Florida Atlantic University
As many higher education institutions confront declining application and enrollment rates — a trend that is expected to worsen with the looming enrollment cliff — Florida Atlantic University is experiencing unprecedented growth. President Adam Hasner will discuss the university’s innovative student success initiatives and their implications for future cohorts; and share how Florida Atlantic’s strategic emphasis on accessibility, affordability and academic excellence has resulted in back-to-back years of record applications and the highest enrollment in university history.
Speaker | Adam Hasner
President, Florida Atlantic University
02:00-02:30 PM ET
Interview: Creating a More Caring Campus
The pandemic and recent tumult in higher ed have created a core challenge for leaders: Many staff and faculty members feel unappreciated and overworked. For Kevin R. McClure, colleges must improve workplace culture so employees can flourish. In this session McClure, an author and professor, will discuss what leadership should do to make that a reality.
Speaker | Kevin R. McClure
Professor of Higher Education, University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Author, The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace After the Great Resignation (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Interviewer | Adrienne Lu
Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
02:30-02:50 PM ET
Interview: How Is the Academic Workplace Changing?
The higher-ed work force is exhausted. That’s one of the key takeaways from recent national surveys by The Chronicle. Two journalists from the newspaper will discuss the findings and what they mean for those managing staff and faculty members.
Speaker | Adrienne Lu
Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Interviewer | Ian Wilhelm
Deputy Managing Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
02:55-03:15 PM ET
To Be Announced
03:20-04:10 PM ET
Roundtable: The Emerging AI University
Scott Latham writes that when it comes to artificial intelligence and higher education, “we are at a tidal moment.” This roundtable discussion will use his recent Chronicle Review article as a starting point for a broad discussion about what the AI university of the future will look like, what it will mean for those who work there, and what leaders must know to stay afloat in the changing tides.
Speaker | Scott Latham
Professor, Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Author of the Chronicle Review article, "Are You Ready for the AI University?"
Speaker | Bryan Alexander
Senior Scholar, Georgetown University; Futurist; Author, Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Emerging Academic Crisis; (Johns Hopkins University Press, slated for 2026)
Speaker | Muhsinah Morris
Director of Morehouse Metaverse Programs, Morehouse College
Interviewer | Ian Wilhelm
Deputy Managing Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education
04:10-04:15 PM ET
Closing Remarks
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