Blog Posts

For nearly 20 months of living and leading through the pandemic, we have been challenged by and overcome many obstacles, oftentimes at great speed and even risk. At the same time, we have learned plenty of valuable lessons about ways …

October 05, 2021 - One thing the pandemic has made crystal clear is that online education is here to stay. Quality online education has become a strategic goal for most colleges and universities; the question is less about if they will create more online …

September 28, 2021 - Mission: SPACE at Disney’s Epcot makes me seasick. With a nauseating combination of video, centrifuges, and hydraulics, the theme park version of a flight simulator gets closer to galaxy galloping G-forces than I ever care to be in real life. …

September 21, 2021 - Trustees are no longer passive participants outside of mainstream decision-making and policy formulation. The bottom line is simple: How well boards function will make a big difference in the fortunes of the organizations they guide. The board’s role is strategic, not …

September 17, 2021 - One need only scan recent headlines of the higher education and popular press to wonder whether public governing boards, and the processes that appoint them, need serious improvement. Some will say that schisms in board rooms reflect our deeply divided …

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September 14, 2021 - The critical need to effectively prepare higher education leaders for the presidency has been surfacing for quite some time. The 2017 American College President Study, conducted by the American Council on Education (ACE), found that 54 percent of presidents or …

September 09, 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift in what students think of higher education. This is the first in a series of three posts from Six Red Marbles looking ahead to these possibly seismic shifts and how to prepare your …

Why do board members devote so much time and attention to their governance work? For many of us in higher education, preparing students for their futures is at the top of our list. Because higher education is one of the …

September 02, 2021 - In the age of low interest rates and tightening public spending, universities were already turning to the bond market for financing. But, like so many other trends, this one was vastly accelerated by the pandemic, which put a further squeeze …